Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to
> > push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0
> > motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE
> > drivers. This is what I have currently:
> > 
> > hda Actual hard drive OS on this
> > hdb Actual hard drive Not in use
> > hdc Actual hard drive home partition
> > hdd DVD burner Duh! It's a burner.
> > sda Actual hard drive connected through a SATA PCI card. Misc stuff.
> > 
> > 
> > So, hda has the Gentoo OS on it and hdc is my /hone directory. I have
> > videos, mp3's and various other data on sda. Currently hdb is not being
> > used, since for those who keep up with my threads would know, it is the
> > one that is terribly slow. Something along the lines of 10Mbs/sec or
> > something of that nature. It's just hard to get out of the case right
> > now and I can't get to it with a hammer either. :/
> 
> You can at least disconnect it then.  Right now all it does and eat
> power, heat the case and make noise :-/
> 
> > My theory is something like this: hda will become sda; hdb will become
> > sdb; hdc will become sdc; hdd will become sdd; and sda will become sde.
> > Would that be a logical expectation?
> 
> I'd say sda will stay as is, hda will become sdb, and so forth.
> 
> Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy.  That way, you
> won't be able to blow anything up and can boot from it in order to
> change your /etc/fstab and grub conf.

Alternatively, give your partitions Labels and reconfigure /etc/fstab to use 
those.
Then you don't have to worry about the changes to the device-names.

--
Joost