Ubuntu 8.04 - all drives now SCSI

[John Moniz]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:12:31PM -0400, Moniz Family wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> That's a GOOD thing.  Making all drives appear using a consistent
> interface makes things much simpler in general.  Also libata is much
> better than the old IDE system in terms of handling errors and such.
>
> By the way they are not appearing as scsi, simply as devices with a scsi
> style interface, just like USB, firewire, and lots of other things have
> already done for years.
>
> So what you are seeing is simply a result of moving to new and better
> drivers with a better interface.  It is not a bug at all.  The fix is to
> convert your fstab and boot settings to use the new drive names.
Thanks Lennart, I'll have to learn to look at it in a positive way. 
Still, hda, hdb ... pretty simple.
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