[Discuss] my ide drives turned to scsi

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-04-22 12:26-0700 George Farris wrote:

> As of the 2.6.20 linux kernel all IDE drives will be sdx convention, hdx
> is a thing of the past.  It has to do with the new IDE driver.

If I use kernel-2.6.18 (the recommended kernel for Debian stable) is that a
guarantee I would be using the old IDE driver by default?

The reason I ask is a new IDE driver sounds a bit scary for the millions of
Linux users out there with legacy hard drives.  I am sure the code has
gotten plenty of obvious testing by the kernel developers and their testing
community, but there is no way such a driver could be as thoroughly
user-tested on legacy hard drives (with their wide variety of problems
meeting the IDE standard) as the old IDE driver.  Of course, I am glad that
Ubuntu users will be substantially extending the user testing of the new IDE
device driver.  That will help the rest of us down the road when we do start
using the new device, but I don't really want to be part of such a test
effort myself with my production boxes.

Alan
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