Ubuntu 8.04 - all drives now SCSI

[Paul King]

I just upgraded from 7 to 8 a couple of days ago and noticed the same thing. I 
don't know what is causing it, but I can still read and write to and from them, 
so I don't consider it a problem.

For the record, I have no actual SCSI drives on my computer, and thought it was 
some kind of arbitrary FSSTND thing they agreed on, that "/dev/hd* is obsolete" 
or something. I don't notice anything new in the behaviour, except that it 
appears that the UBUNTU update tool has just now crashed the computer, forcing 
me to press the reset button. I'm writing this letter from XP on the same 
machine.

Paul King

> I am putting together a older PC for my dear mother-in-law to replace 
> her even older one, and just installed Ubuntu 8.04. Now all of the 
> drives boot up as SCSI. The hard drive (hda) is SDA, the DVD (hdc) is 
> now scd0. All sorts of problems have resulted from that little conversion.
> 
> I first installed Ubuntu 7.10 from the live CD. From the live CD, I did 
> the partitioning with gparted (or is it qtparted?) and all was normal. 
> Then I installed 7.10 from the CD and all drives were normal. During the 
> updates, I noticed that 8.04LTS was available as an update, so I did it. 
> Then I performed added some repositories, including medibuntu, and did 
> whatever updates were noted. During some troubleshooting of DVD 
> playback, I noticed that the drives were no longer IDE.
> 
> If I boot with the Ubuntu 7.10 live disk, the drives are IDE. Also, grub 
> lists three kernels to boot from. The oldest (2.6.22-14 generic) still 
> boots with IDE drives. The two newest kernels on the gub list (2.6.24-16 
> & 2.6.24-17 generic) both boot with SCSI drives.
> 
> Does anyone know what could be causing this? I'd like to fix it as I've 
> invested too much time to this stage of the install, but if I can't fix 
> it, the next step will involve either Mandriva or FC.
> 
> Thanks for any tips.
> 
> John.
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