2.6.7 Kernel and SATA drive

[Edwards, Scott (MED, Kelly IT Resouces)]

On Friday, August 06, 2004 10:22 AM, Randy Kelsoe wrote:

> 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.
>
> Just thought I would let everyone else know about this, since I had
not 
> seen anything mentioned about this feature.

This seems odd to me because I have been using 2.6.5 and 2.6.6 and my
SATA drives have always been /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.  At least on Fedora
Core 2.  If I booted the machines from a Knoppix CD then they were
/dev/hde and /dev/hdg.

-Scott