The LiveCD shows my PATA IDE drives as /dev/sda /dev/sdb and the installer/installed system follows suit. My pc has two PATA drives ans this is the '/etc/fstab' file on installed system: ----------------------- /dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sdb2 / ext3 defaults 0 1 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 ----------------------- This should say '/dev/hda3' and '/dev/hdb2'. If it helps, my machine is installed with (from lspci): -------------- *-ide description: IDE interface product: VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. -------------- Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Expected Results: picked up on my machine have PATA hard drives and found '/dev/hdaX', etc.
Sorry, the following is from program 'lshw' -------------- *-ide description: IDE interface product: VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. --------------
So...you're complaining because everything worked? It's probably using the new libata PATA drivers instead of the old IDE drivers.
(In reply to comment #2) > So...you're complaining because everything worked? It's probably using the new > libata PATA drivers instead of the old IDE drivers. > Still, why use /dev/sda in libata instead of /dev/hda. This doesn't seem the standard to me?
The libata drivers use the (much better) SCSI generic interfaces and SCSI framework in the kernel. Besides, it really was rather stupid, IMO, to have separate naming for IDE and SCSI disks. At any rate, this is intended behavior and won't be reverted. Thanks
