[LBo] Kernel eide v. scsi

[Geoff Jones]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:00:01 Tim wrote:
> I'm not sure but I think there was a change in the kernel that now lists
> all drives as sd** as opposed to hd**

The strange thing is I did the same kernel upgrade on an amd 2800 dual core 
box that I have [ that supports sata, tho I have disks set up as pata ] and 
the 2.6.21-2 kernel kept to the hd** scheme !

Anita wrote:
> I don't know exactly why, but I do know that this naming was introduced
> into the new kernel some time back.  I noticed it when I couldn't reboot
> after an upgrade of my kernel in ubuntu. This would not have happened to
> me if I had done a fresh install of ubuntu when it had come out.  I
> think this was the transition to Feisty, not farther back.  Anyway, with
> the fresh install of it, I would have found that in my /etc/fstab the
> partitions would have been labeled by UUID and not by the schema I was
> used to (/dev/hda1 etc.)  That way, the change to the scsi nomenclature
> for partitions would not have affected it at all, since the UUID would
> have remained the same.

I also installed ubuntu Feisty on the duron 800 machine last night and that 
certainly uses the UUID scheme so that in dmesg "root=/dev/sda3".
But as I said above, a similar Deb upgrade on another box kept the hd** 
scheme???

I suspected there might be some difference in the hardware set up - tho both 
bios have the disks as ide0, ide1?

My main concern is that on the duron box there is a d-link card that I 
struggled with MadWifi to get going - and it is not working with the new 
kernel [ tho that might be a seperate issue ?].
I still have the old kernel and can stick with that - tho I still would like 
to know the cause of the change.

Geoff.