On Tuesday 20 February 2007 14:34, Basil Chupin wrote:
> dev/disk/by-id/ata-QUANTUM_FIREBALLlct20_20_552102678031-part1 / ext3
> acl,user_xattr 1 1
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-QUANTUM_FIREBALLlct20_20_552102678031-part2 swap
> swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-QUANTUM_FIREBALLlct20_20_052117040222-part5 swap
> swap defaults 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
> debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
>
> Nowhere is there a hdx or sdx appearing. The sudden appearance of device
> ID number is a bit worrying

It's udev, and it's hardly new. /dev/disk/by-id or by-name has been around for 
a while. Fixed names for drives was a very requested feature

> HOWEVER, in both instances there was one weird anomaly: in the Control
> Centre under Hardware the IDE DMA MODE there were NO entries. This list
> is totally BLANK in both cases as if no devices are present.

File a bug

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