Happened to me as well. I have two PATA drives attached to a PCI
controller:

  Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20268 (Ultra100
TX2) (rev 01)

according to lspci. That means that /dev/hde and /dev/hdg now appeared
as /dev/sda and /dev/sdc. Ouch. On the upgrade to edgy, the upgrade
script (mis-) fixed my fstab, trying to move things to UUID. Besides of
missing the last linefeed, which gave rise to lots of funny warnings, it
managed just to mount one drive (the one mounted on a directory of the
root partition). The other, which went on a subdirectory of the first
one, was completely missed.

Well, the edgy upgrade should have taken care of that, with all this
UUID stuff, you say?

(Attached a somewhat censored copy of my fstab, which might make things
clearer. Especially, the $$$$$'s there are censored expletives. After-
the-fact comments writen for here are prefixed with #>>)

No. Apart from something which broke back then (the swap partition
wasn't found by UUID, -- eh, whatever), somehow sdb was missed (I did
install the latter after edgy upgrade).

Now I don't expect a script to cope with strange, hand-tailored fstabs.
But I have two concrete rants:

  * folks. This libata stuff is really, really new. I'd expect at least
a warning before you throw it on us.

  * don't touch fstab when it has *obviously* been hand-edited that
heavily. Tell the user what is (what are) the issues.

Ah, btw: i *hate* web sites forcing me to enable cookies (or javascript)
in  my browser. I think I would write more bug reports otherwise.

Regards
-- tomas

** Attachment added: "fstab.commented"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10155084/fstab.commented

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