> Changing sda->hda in menu.lst an fstab allows me to boot, though it > still displays hda. The proper sata driver is built into the kernel. > From your post, it sounds like I probably have an older drive that's > taking precedence over the sata, which is causing this problem? > > Just for my information, boot when the disk is detected as hda rather > than sda isn't going to do any damage, correct? It would just read at a > lower speed?
i don't think you'll have any performance issues with the pata driver. you can use "hdparm -tT /dev/xx" to test the read-performance (bufferd + cached). hdparm is part of blfs. as within then next major kernel versions the old pata drivers might get obsolete, all newer mainbords support sata, sata cabeling is blocking the air-flow inside the case much less and actually sata drives are already cheaper than pata i myself build the kernel without the old ata/atapi drivers now for quite some time. i just disable "device drivers" / "ata/atapi/mfm/rll" as i had the same strange behaviour on some mainboards when i enabled the ata/atapi to support an pata-cdrom. on one of the mainboards the disk changed from sda to hda when i changed the sata settings in the bios from legacy to enhanced (or something like this), on another it remained always hda as long as the general ide-driver was enabled in the kernel. (having sata in the kernel and ata/atapi as a module might solve the problem, but i didn't test it...) tobias -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
