Ubuntu 8.04 - all drives now SCSI

[John Moniz]

Scott Elcomb wrote:
> On 5/10/08, Moniz Family <john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> [...]
>   
>> Does anyone know what could be causing this?
>>     
>
> Hi John,
>
> I noticed the same thing, but like Paul it hasn't been an issue for
> me.  Did some digging around though and came up with this archived
> thread on UbuntuForums
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-518221.html
>
> In particular, this post seems enlightening:
>
> "August 6th, 2007, 03:05 AM
> Kernel deveolpers recently found out that the SATA/SCSI driver also
> handles PATA drives (these are the ones often called IDE drives!)
> better than the original PATA driver dir. So they started using SATA
> drivers with all drives.
>
> That should not cause any problems, the only difference is that drives
> are named as sd* instead of hd*. As long as you use UUID's in fstab
> you shouldn't normally even notice anything."
>
> HTH.
Thanks Scott. When I use newer kernel, which gives me the /dev/sd* 
naming, I have problems with the video players finding DVD's. They seem 
to be looking for devices that don't exist. With the older kernel, which 
gives me the /dev/hdx naming, the problems are not there. Maybe 
everything *should* be OK with a whole lot of fiddling, but clearly it's 
causing me problems.

Is this just a Ubuntu thing?

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