On Thursday, 3 בApril 2008, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Thursday 03 April 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > ... I don't know whether it was a change in the kernel or a > > change in the way the Fedora team did something but my hard drives > > changed from /dev/hdx to /dev/sdx. They were both 2.6 kernels. > > I ran into the same problems with two recent 2.6.x kernels - one of them > from Linus with my own home-grown .config and the other the Mandriva > distribution kernel. See this bug report for more information: > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=35432
The name change is a superficial result of a deeper change. The newer kernels replaced the old IDE drivers with libata (despite the name it's not a library, it's in the kernel). This layer unifies IDE/SATA/SCSI into a common layer and hence they all get the same naming. Initialy the kernels were shipping both drivers so that libata handled SCSI and SATA and the old driver was used for IDE. Later kernels totally dropped the old IDE drivers and now libata is used for all disk types -- as a result you have a uniform naming to all /dev/sd? As usual, Fedora tries to follow the (b)leading edge (e.g: like Debian testing), which is why you got hit first. BTW: this change was listed in in the Release-Notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-OverView.html, which obviously no one reads ;-) Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 "Linux: like the air you breathe, ubiquitous and free" ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
