root disk moves from PATA to SATA

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Apr 13 23:45:41 UTC 2007


Florin Andrei <florin <at> andrei.myip.org> writes:
> I am planning to keep the existing PATA hard-drive and not reinstall FC6 
> (I will upgrade to FC7 when it comes out), but instead I'll use a 
> SATA-PATA adapter between drive and mobo. The problem, of course, is 
> that PATA is /dev/hda while SATA will be /dev/sda

F7 will use /dev/sda for everything (even PATA) anyway, so maybe a better plan 
is to wait for F7, do the upgrade (letting Anaconda worry about the hda->sda 
migration), then do the hardware upgrade.

       Kevin Kofler




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