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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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.  :/

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?  Anybody see anything that 
may cause a hiccup on this change?  I know I have to update fstab before 
rebooting.  I may also have a sledge hammer or a really big shotgun 
close by, just in case it gets any bad ideas like messing up /home.  ;-)

I'm currently using this:

AMD and nVidia IDE support

This would be the new, possibly improved, version of things:

AMD/NVidia PATA support

Correct?

I'm just wanting to cover a few bases and make sure I am on the right 
track and understand things before I blow up something.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)