[Discuss] my ide drives turned to scsi

[George Farris]

On Sat, 2007-21-04 at 23:30 -0500, David Lee wrote:
> Good evening
> 
> This time 'round when I installed Ubuntu (7.04), my drives from before 
> were hda and hdb. Now they show up as sda and sdb icons on the desktop.
> I have an htfs and a fat32 partition. The htfs is on the first drive at 
> the beginning, and the Fat32 is the first partition on the 2nd drive.
> I made a swap primary, a / primary and a /home primary on the first 
> drive and 1 primary (for future PCLinuxOS) on the 2nd leaving some 
> unused space left over.
> I checked fstab, but they show up there as sda, sdb also.
> I made primaries because I thought they would work better with grub.
> Things seem to work ok, but I'm concerned I might have problems later 
> with naming partitions.

As of the 2.6.20 linux kernel all IDE drives will be sdx convention, hdx
is a thing of the past.  It has to do with the new IDE driver.

-- 
George Farris
farrisg at shaw.ca