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Re: Kernel 2.6.8 changes hard drives



On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 09:46, Scott Thompson wrote:

> I also had two hard drives attached to SATA controllers.  These drives were
> recognized as hdd and hde.  After moving to kernel 2.6.8 from 2.6.7, the
> SATA drives are recognized as sda and sdb.  I corrected the fstab entries
> and now they both seem to mount and work fine.  
> 
> Any idea why this occurred?  Is it something changed in the 2.6.8 kernel or
> a problem with my setup?  Thoughts and comments would be appreciated.

Seems you weren't using libata prior. Libata sees these drives as SCSI.
It's the new SATA interface in the kernel. At any rate, there is no need
for concern. This is expected behavior. 

Do an lsmod and you should see libata is loaded and has a reference
count.

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