Adding an ATA to a F9 installed on a SATA drive

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 13:22:01 UTC 2008


2008/6/26 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
> redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
>>
>>
>> How do I locate the drive? My SATA drive is sda. I was expecting
>> the ATA to be hda, but I can't find that.
>> Thanks,
>> EJ
>>
> Just about all drives are handled as SCSI drives now. I would expect the new
> drive to be sdb.
>
> Mikkel
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Be careful though, the kernel could easily assign /dev/sda to the ATA
drive. I've seen it before myself and on this list. You may have to
fix GRUB but as long as your fstab is using disk labels or UUID you
should be fine.

Richard




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