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Happy_Man
April 21st, 2007, 10:12 PM
I just noticed this a couple minutes ago.... my hard drive had always been recognized as /dev/hda by Ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10, now it is recognized as /dev/sda by 7.04. Is that normal, and if so, why is it happening?
macogw
April 21st, 2007, 10:18 PM
libata was changed and now all hard drives use sda
Swab
April 21st, 2007, 10:24 PM
libata was changed and now all hard drives use sda

Except that my PATA drive is still hda!
LookTJ
April 21st, 2007, 10:40 PM
Except that my PATA drive is still hda!is a PATA a legacy drive?
Swab
April 21st, 2007, 10:43 PM
is a PATA a legacy drive?

Well, it's an IDE drive. Don't know if it's considered legacy quite yet.
prizrak
April 22nd, 2007, 12:45 AM
libata was changed and now all hard drives use sda

What he said :)