[TriLUG] Any Kubuntu/Ubuntu users explain to me why my IDE drives show up as sda?

[Chess Griffin]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:19:26 -0400
Randy Barlow <randy at electronsweatshop.com> wrote:

> Hmm, anybody know if this is actually an upstream change or not?
> Because I am not seeing this change in kernel 2.6.24 on Gentoo with
> two different systems that both use IDE.  Perhaps it's just a patch
> to the upstream kernel that was deployed for Debian and Debian-like
> systems (Ubuntu)?
> 

This definitely was an upstream change.  I remember seeing commentary
about it on kerneltrap.  And it's not just deployed for Debian and
Debian-like systems since I see the same behavior in Slackware -current
and Arch Linux, both using 2.6.24 kernels.

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