Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem
On 2009-02-16 10:05 +0100, Bob Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:40:51 +0000, Tim Day (timday@bottlenose.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:57 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
>> > Alternatively, you can try the UUID=<filesystem-uuid> for mounting the
>> > drive.
>>
>> Is there any reason to think the UUID version will work any better than
>> labels ? If I have the labels method working fine with 2.6.18, why
>> would they not work with 2.6.26 ?
I prefer labels as well, they are more readable than UUIDs.
>> > Another option is to specify the names as sda, sdb, etc.
>>
>> Currently (2.6.18) I have a hda (the IDE drive) and an sda and sdb for
>> the 2 SATA drives. Is there any way to predict where the hda drive will
>> move to under 2.6.26 ? (ie should it appear as sda and the two existing
>> sd* drives will move up to sdb & sdc, or will hda move to sdc ?)
I think this is not predictable, but I'm not an expert in this area.
> Your IDE drive should still be hda (or at least hdn rather than sdn)
> with 2.6.26. At least, that is what I see here with IDE drives in two
> separate lenny boxen, one of which was an upgrade from etch and one a
> clean lenny install several months ago.
Probably the reason is that there is no PATA driver for your
controllers. AFAIK these are preferred over the old IDE drivers now.
Sven
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