BandiPat wrote:
Question!
I'm a bit confused on the new kernels and hard drives, optical devices. According to what I'm reading, any kernel 2.6.19 or above is now using the new libata module for drives. What this does basically is change all devices that were labeled as hdxx to sdxx designation. Is that correct so far?
Now if you have SATA drives, they are already sdxx designated, so no changes are necessary in Grub or Lilo or /etc/fstab. But, if you have anything labeled with hdxx, those must be changed to sdxx to be recognized? Also, if that is correct, what happens to programs like k3b in seeing the drives?
So let's say I have a dual SATA, not counting the Raid, and those will be sda & sdb, right?
Now I have two optical devices, cdwriter, dvdwriter as hdc & hdd presently, so those become sde & sdf now?
sata=sda sata=sdb hda=sdc hdb=sdd hdc=sde hdd=sdf
Is my logic right or do optical devices not count in the whole scheme of things??
thanks, Lee Hi Lee,
I would be happier if someone could confirm your logic on this - nobody seems to have even read your post (and your follow-up). Yesterday I upgraded my 10.2 installation to 10.3 Alpha1 which, as you may know, has the 2.6.20 kernel. I also did a new, clean, install of Alpha1. Neither of these seem to support your findings. The new, clean install is particularly worrying because it departs totally from what I am used to when it comes to identifying drives. For example, the fstab which was generated by the clean install shows this: dev/disk/by-id/ata-QUANTUM_FIREBALLlct20_20_552102678031-part1 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-QUANTUM_FIREBALLlct20_20_552102678031-part2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-QUANTUM_FIREBALLlct20_20_052117040222-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 Nowhere is there a hdx or sdx appearing. The sudden appearance of device ID number is a bit worrying (seeing as how MS is not on the scene). When I UPGRADED an existing 10.2 installation, 10.3 Alpha with its 2.6.20 kernel had no troubles in working with the old hdx naming convention and the fstab was left untouched. HOWEVER, in both instances there was one weird anomaly: in the Control Centre under Hardware the IDE DMA MODE there were NO entries. This list is totally BLANK in both cases as if no devices are present. Something somewhere is not kosher. Cheers. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org