Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hello,
> I still don't have any authoritative kernel links, but this is a good 
> summary that I found
> 
> "the IDE subsystem in the linux kernel has been functionally replaced by 
> the PATA subsystem which uses just that naming convention (sdX instead 
> of hdX). IDE is still included in the linux kernel, but is considered 
> legacy. However, some distributions still default to IDE."
> 
> I'm pretty sure that SL5 is going to continue to use hda instead of 
> switch to everything being sda, but I bet that SL6 will be all sda.
> 
> I know that Fedora 10 Beta uses the sda only, as does the beta of Ubuntu 
> that is currently out.


ubuntu's been using sda etc for quite some time, a year and more I think.

I've just updated an old Tosh Sat from FC5 to f9 and it's gone to some 
seriously arcane names in /etc/fstab (one can't blindly copy disks any 
more, there's surgery to be done afterwards) and I'm _sure_ it also is 
using sda.





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