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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
> 2010/8/27 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.
>>>        
> This entirely depends on the way your BIOS orders your drivers, as far
> as I know. It could be either way. But, we all know how flexible grub
> is. You can just use TAB to autocomplete and try. All you need to boot
> is your root fs, after that fdisk -l will reveal all the info you
> need. fstab is another story, that might cost you an extra reboot into
> a livecd to fix it.
>
> But, using labels as said will fix all the problems (beforehand) for
> you, as said.
>
>
>    

I have heard of the labels before but never used them.  I need to google 
that and see how that is done.

Another thing that I hadn't thought of, grub.  I didn't even think about 
grub would have to be edited.  That would have been interesting when I 
tried to boot up.

Thanks.

Dale

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