[ltp] Re: not detecting x25-m in ultrabay

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:19:46 +0100


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 22:51:36 -0700, m h wrote:

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> This is weird, I swapped the drives to make sure I could see the
> drive.  It started to boot, detected the ssd, and failed to mount the
> root partition (it was now at /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda).  So I

If the drive appears as hda, then you have some strange driver setup.
Nowadays you should only use ata_piix (the libata driver) and don't use
and old style IDE drivers anymore. With ata_piix, all disks appear as
sd* instead of hd*.

Regards,
Tino