On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Brian McAllister wrote:

 > The change causing non-SCSI disks to appear as sdX rather than hdX is not
 > distro specific, it's a base kernel change.  With very new kernels, both
 > IDE and SATA appear as SCSI disks.  There is some information available
 > online as to why this change was made.

Clearly one can choose to use the old driver in a new kernel.  Is it
possible to build a kernel that has both drivers available as modules and
select which one to use at boot time ?

I don't know the answer to that; I'd guess it depends on the particular kernel version.

Dave

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