[ILUG] libata issue.

[Justin Mason]

libata has been adopted by Ubuntu too:

  : jm 152...; df
  Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
  /dev/sda3             82946556  67374076  11359036  86% /
  : jm 153...; uname -a
  Linux wall 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
  : exit=0 Fri Feb 22 11:07:35 GMT 2008; cd /home/jm/pp/solr
  : jm 154...; cat /etc/issue
  Ubuntu 7.10 \n \l


I'm not sure how you're still seeing /dev/hda on Gutsy.  Feisty was
terrible for this breakage, in that after a reboot I found myself dropped
into a maintainance shell with no clue about what had changed... (yeah
yeah I should have read the changelogs before 'apt-get upgrade'ing, I
know ;)

perhaps Gutsy has been fixed to maintain backwards compat on upgrades
until you reformat and reinstall from scratch, at which point it adopts
the libata naming?  I'm guessing here.

--j.

Darragh writes:
> Hello,
> 
> The new version of OpenSuSE comes with an updated version of Libata that
> refers to IDE and SATA drives in an untraditional method compared to
> previous versions.
> 
> Example: IDE drives are now seen as SDx instead of HDx.
> 
> Also, previous versions of OpenSuSE and other distributions such as Ubuntu
> 7.10 and Mandriva 2008.1 see HDA (I.E, the IDE disk) on this machine as
> the first drive however OpenSuSE sees the first drive as SDA1.  (I.E the
> first SATA disk).  The computer is configured to boot Sata 1 first.
> 
> Questions:
> 1.  Why do other distributions see HDA as the first bootable drive?
> 2.  Is this libata change one focused only on the OpenSuSE distribution?
> Or, will later versions of other distributions reflect this change also?
> 
> I'm trying to install OpenSuSE, Ubuntu and Mandriva onto a test PC here.
> The configuration is 2 150GB SATA disks and 1 20GB IDE disk. OpenSuSE
> installs flawlessly however getting the boot loader working correctly on
> the two other machines is taking a bit more work.  Before, I installed
> OpenSuSE then added Ubuntu to the grub menu manually however I'm only
> working with Ubuntu at the moment and it just doesn't seem to be
> configured correctly. It almost looks like it's stuck in an infinit loop. 
> The word Grub is continually printed.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Darragh
> Blog at www.digitaldarragh.com
> 
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