[Discuss] my ide drives turned to scsi (SOLVED)

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David Lee wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Should I just leave them alone?
>>
>> David
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> Same problem came up on Ubuntu forums.
> " there have been many posts about this... IDE drives are now handled by 
> the SATA driver... this is normal."
> 
> sorry for not checking there first :(
> David
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I have a machine with 2 80 Gig Samsung SP0802N IDE drives.  hda is 
Ubuntu 1 or 2 versions ago and hdb was Fedora something or other.  I 
installed 7.04 yesterday on hdb.  I took all the defaults other than 
specifying that it should install on hdb, not hda.   I see the following 
when I do df:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1             75471708  18271888  53365912  26% /
varrun                  257996       104    257892   1% /var/run
varlock                 257996         0    257996   0% /var/lock
procbususb              257996       124    257872   1% /proc/bus/usb
udev                    257996       124    257872   1% /dev
devshm                  257996         0    257996   0% /dev/shm
lrm                     257996     33788    224208
     14% /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/volatile
/dev/sda1            120177236  41063724  73008816  36% /media/disk
/dev/sda2            120185300    192192 113888008   1% /mnt

The sda disks are USB connected devices.  So in this case it set up the 
IDE drives as  hd devices, not sd devices.  Go figure?  All works well.

Deid