Ubuntu 8.04 - all drives now SCSI

[John Moniz]

Paul King wrote:
> 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 some kind of arbitrary FSSTND thing they agreed on, that "/dev/hd* is obsolete" 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've been having trouble accessing dvd's and I expect to have problems 
mounting volumes. I think it's more than a minor nuisance. And this is 
suppose to be an LTS release?
>   
>> 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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