Ubuntu 8.04 - all drives now SCSI

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:33:27PM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> 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 would be wrong.  They are using libata (not SATA) drivers.  libata
was originally written to do SATA but it wasn't limited to just SATA and
note it was never named libsata.

> 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."

UUIDs are a really good idea.

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Len Sorensen
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