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Re: Are all Ubuntu IDE drives now sda?

Subject: Re: Are all Ubuntu IDE drives now sda?
From: Larry Alkoff
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:24:40 -0600
James Takac wrote:
> On Friday 08 February 2008 10:36:21 Larry Alkoff wrote:
>> I've put together a Ubuntu Server edition 7.10 using a single PATA IDE
>> (not SATA) drive.
>>
>> In /etc/fstab, I specify the drives with their ssid.
>>
>> On bootup, the system is calling the partitions sda1 and sda5 (root and
>> home).
>>
>> So my question is, has Ubuntu given up the old HDA nomenclature in favor
>> of SDA in all cases of PATA and SATA drives?
>>
>> Larry
> 
> Hi Larry
> 
> I believe it was switched to this method at some point during feisty
> 
> James
> 


Hello James.

The switch to sda is fine by me.  I just wanted to make sure nothing 
"funny" was happening since I was expecting PATA IDE would be called 
'hda' etc.

Larry


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