[Tfug] sda or hda?

[Eric Gearhart]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Christopher Robbins
<robbinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was curious about this too - I've noticed the change, and now
> I know/understand why.  Apparently they've changed the driver
> for parallel ATA devices, and now they appear as /dev/sda*
> or /dev/sr*
>
> This link helped explain things -
>
> http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_19#head-cdcbaa9c1b476decdc064e0a75d23d1328b1ddce

Ah cool! So they ("they" being Alan Cox mostly it looks like)
rearchitected the old PATA kernel modules to sit on top of libata, but
they're not as "rock solid" stable as the old PATA /dev/hd* modules
(although it looks like this was done back in 2006...you'd think
they've stabled off by now)


Erich - you should still see the old IDE drivers as options in 'make
menuconfig' - you could have everything still on /dev/hd* if you
wanted it looks like

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Eric
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