Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1231 mails)

[Arvin Schnell <aschnell@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:30:34AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> "Stefan Kunze" <skunze@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hi if have installed the 11.1 B4 from DVD yesterday. 
> > My notebook has an internal IDE harddisk. In 11.0 it was recognized as sda. 
> > In 11.1 Beta 4 it is recognized as hda (like in old days)
> > Is this intentional or is it a bug?
>
> Looks to me like a bug - please report it in bugzilla.
>
> > On another maschine i tried to install it and it recognized the USB stick 
> > as sda and the internal harddrive as sdb. I cant think of any reason why 
> > this should be intentional. 
>
> That's why we use the device by ID method to identify the drives.

But during an update you will likely run into problems anyway:

Prior to 11.1 the scsi-SATA-* id was preferred and that is not
generated for IDE drives.

ciao
  Arvin
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