Right your PATA devices don't change, so it makes no difference. If you had SATA devices in there and cut from say a 2.6.5 to a 2.6.8 kernel your SATA devices would go from /dev/hd* to /dev/sd*, it's not a big deal other than needing to modify fstab to accomodate the change.
regards, brett On Wednesday 03 November 2004 19:10, Heracles wrote: > Brett Fenton wrote: > >I'm pretty sure this is wrong. My understanding is that in earlier kernels > >sata devices were recognized as IDE devices, post 2.6.7 they were > > recognized as SCSI devices. so regardless of whether cabling has altered > > or not the fstab entries will be wrong and need to be modified. on my > > system for example the first sata disk was /dev/hde and the root > > partition /dev/hde1 this needed to be changed to /dev/sda1. > > This is unusual. I have two SATA interfaces, but my IDE (PATA?) devices > are called /dev/hde /dev/hdf etc. > > Stay well and happy > Heracles -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd _______________________________________________ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet Business Services Provider Trusted by 10,000s of Oz Businesses Since 1997 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
