A few months ago, I was having trouble with the Ultra-ATA drive in a dual G4
tower. The 9.1 system would install, but not boot. Eventually I gave up and
moved the HD to the normal ATA bus on the motherboard. The drive won't show
up at all in the normal mdk kernels, smp or enterprise, if it's connected to
the Ultra ATA bus.
But recently I figured out what seems to be a strange quirk. The Ultra drive
shows up as /dev/hde when you boot the rescue CD with 'install-gui-benh
rescue text video=ofonly', but when I booted the machine from the HD with the
benh kernel, it shows up as /dev/hda. Odd.
On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version:
2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before,
although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but
content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?).
I just thought I'd share the experience in case anyone else bumps into this
problem, because I wasted a lot of time editing /etc/fstab and
/etc/yaboot.conf (and doing the accompanying chroot, mount /proc, ybin
procedure in rescue mode) to change everything to /dev/hde, before figuring
out what was happening, that it should be /dev/hda, not /dev/hde.
--i
