2.6.7 Kernel and SATA drive

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That's odd.. and crappy. You can't tweak a scsi drive using hdparm and 
you can't read smart sensors.. even if it has them available, by it calling it 
scsi.. these utils won't/can't work.

Everyone has been complaining about this.. some snippets:

'from about 2.6.7-bk6 the via-ide doesnt gain control over the sata controller 
so it changed from hde and hdg to sda and sdb'



> I just upgraded my kernel from 2.6.6 to 2.6.7, and when it tried to mount my 
> second drive (which is on a Sil 3112 SATA controller), I got the message 
> "/dev/hde1: invalid block device". I tired to manually mount the drive and 
> got the same message. I rebooted the 2.6.6 kernel, and the drive mounted 
> fine. Looking at the logs, the 2.6.7 kernel identified the drive as a scsi 
> drive, which is now sda1. I rebooted the 2.6.7 kernel, mounted the drive 
> using /dev/sda1, edited my fstab file,  and all is fine.
>