From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OothZ-00068I-JQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:50:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B40CE07C5; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:49:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEBDBE07C5 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1AD31B4011 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:49:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.918 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.918 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.319, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id U7scSBmdg0hN for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:49:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B681B4014 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:49:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ootgv-0006ol-7E for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:49:37 +0200 Received: from athedsl-374048.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.13.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:49:37 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-374048.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:49:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:49:41 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4C776B2A.4040201@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-374048.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: <4C776B2A.4040201@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e232472d-eef8-4899-a362-57a5400dba75 X-Archives-Hash: 942d691815781788e6a9deb0a9a1b135 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.