On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:29:56PM +0200, Günter Lichtenberg wrote:
> Hi all -
>       I just tried to install 10.3beta2 (the KDE CD iso) on my 64bit machine. 
> The 
> first steps worked until the installation set-up. But when I check the 
> suggested partitioning it recognises my IDE disk as an /dev/sda and the menu 
> in the partitioner also says it is a scsi disk. Checking on the suggested 
> GRUB entries, the 10.2 root is also set to /dev/sda. At that point I stopped, 
> because I did not want to shoot down my working 10.2 installation.
> 
> I remember dimly that there was something about devices not correctly 
> identified at some point in bugzilla, but I could not find it back...
> 
> The question is: Is this a real bug or a feature? I always thought that IDE 
> disks should be on hda devices.

It is a feature. hda is ... mostly history.

We now use libata for IDE drives which is a SCSI based library.

Ciao, Marcus
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