On Tuesday 15 July 2008, John Mort wrote: > My motherboard has four SATA ports and one IDE port, recently they > were all occupied. Then my wife's hard drive died, and I pulled out > one of the IDE drives for her computer. When I booted my computer > (Ubuntu 8.04) back up I had some difficulty mounting one of my SATA > drives, and eventually figured out that I had been mounting it as > device /dev/sdd1, but since I removed that IDE drive it had become > /dev/sdc1. Is it common for hard drives to migrate from device to > device as the environment changes? I had been under the impression > that /dev/sdc was mapped to physical port X, and /dev/sdd was mapped > to physical port Y, now I'm wondering if it figures things out as it > goes along.
Another part of thee problem you've run into is that Ubuntu uses the newer 'libata' drivers in the kernel for IDE devices [which are still considered experimental], which makes them show up as SCSI devices via SCSI emulation. Most other distributions are using the more stable standard IDE/ATA support, in which IDE devices show up as /dev/hdX and which generally *do not* change devices if you pull a drive out (unless doing so requires changing the master/slave setting on another device). -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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