[Tfug] sda or hda?

[erich]

OK,
        I've decided that this kernel version is either too buggy or too 
advanced
for my box. Newer hardware is multicore, pci express, and SATA among
other things, and you guys that have such platforms may not have a problem
with 2.6.27-r7.
        I've decided to fly with 2.6.24 after messing around with the 
fstab file,
and getting nowhere. It's still the same: whether I say my file systems  are
/dev/sda[x] or  /dev/hda[x], this version of the kernel freezes up. It 
may be
that ATA is too primitive for it.

                                                                                                   
Erich
Eric Gearhart wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Eric
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