Mini rant: sda vs hda

[Rick Sivernell]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:58:47 -0400
Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 28 July 2007, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > Just installed my first copy of Ubuntu "Feisty", previous work had all
> > been in "Dapper" or older. Kernel = 2.6.20.something.
> >
> > Why on earth are all my ancient PATA IDE drives now referred to as
> > /dev/sda ?
> >
> > Who should I blame for this silliness? Shuttleworth or Torvalds?
> 
> I think it would be Torvalds....   but why is this such a big problem?
> _______________________________________________



It was not expected, did not take long to get over it.
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