[Discuss] my ide drives turned to scsi (SOLVED)

[David Lee]

David Lee wrote:
> Good evening
>
> This time 'round when I installed Ubuntu (7.04), my drives from before 
> were hda and hdb. Now they show up as sda and sdb icons on the desktop.
> I have an htfs and a fat32 partition. The htfs is on the first drive 
> at the beginning, and the Fat32 is the first partition on the 2nd drive.
> I made a swap primary, a / primary and a /home primary on the first 
> drive and 1 primary (for future PCLinuxOS) on the 2nd leaving some 
> unused space left over.
> I checked fstab, but they show up there as sda, sdb also.
> I made primaries because I thought they would work better with grub.
> Things seem to work ok, but I'm concerned I might have problems later 
> with naming partitions.
>
> Should I just leave them alone?
>
> David
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Same problem came up on Ubuntu forums.
" there have been many posts about this... IDE drives are now handled by 
the SATA driver... this is normal."

sorry for not checking there first :(
David