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

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

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.