jagwah Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 (edited) Just been trying out UbuntuStudio 7.04 and Ubuntu 7.04 on my other PC, and they are calling my hard drives SCSI, sda, sdb etc. They are just normal IDE hard drives, always detected as such in Mandriva, and shown as hda, hdb etc. Is this OK? Edited May 19, 2007 by jagwah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 (edited) Yes, it is. Since kernel 2.6.19 IDE hardddrives use libata to initialize, and they do appear as /dev/sd* It may be slighlty annoying at the very start, but after a while one does get used to it. Of course you can *still* have some /dev/hdx device nodes for them, writing a couple of custom udev rules- but I'd rather consider it an oddity. Edited May 19, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagwah Posted May 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 ok, Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 Yes, it is.Since kernel 2.6.19 IDE hardddrives use libata to initialize, and they do appear as /dev/sd* It may be slighlty annoying at the very start, but after a while one does get used to it. Of course you can *still* have some /dev/hdx device nodes for them, writing a couple of custom udev rules- but I'd rather consider it an oddity. I'm using 2.6.20.11 (albeit in real debian) and the ATAPI IDE drives (including CD/DVD) are still generated as hda, hdb etc. I think this is only SATA drives?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 I'm using 2.6.20.11 (albeit in real debian) and the ATAPI IDE drives (including CD/DVD) are still generated as hda, hdb etc. I think this is only SATA drives?? No. In 2.6.19, libATA was merged. libATA is the new way of handling *all* drives, sata and IDE. They did not remove the old ide/ layer. So chances are you're still using that, and whatever distro you have, still uses ide as a default, rather than libATA, which supercedes it. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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