Re: SATA disk device naming ?

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Wednesday 14 of July 2004 13:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Dienstag, 13. Juli 2004 05:04, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Whoever builds your kernels changed around the kernel configuration on
> > you.
> >
> > SATA "disk naming" (what driver you use) did not change from 2.6.3 to
> > 2.6.7.
>
> The thing that changed is the new BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA option that defaults
> to 'n', while before it was enabled implicitly.

This is a quite fresh change (post 2.6.7) and should be fixed before 2.6.8.
This option should default to 'y', we can put some runtime warning instead.

Jeff, do you agree?

> I was bitten by this as well. Unfortunately I have an md RAID-0 volume
> which I can not start after hde/hdg become sda/sdb, so I'll probably
> have to keep using the old IDE driver indefinitely.
>
> 	Arnd <><

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