Since the IDs for the three disks were sda, sdb, and sdc before I added
the SATA drive, Ubuntu apparently implements all HD drivers as part of
the SCSI code tree. It made sense that channel 0 master was sda,
channel 0 slave was sdb, and channel 1 master was sdc. What doesn't
make sense to me is that the SATA drive--channel 2 master--became sda.
I would have expected sdd or sde or something like that.
Where can I find info on tweaking Ubuntu's HD recognition?
-mj-
Steven A. DuChene wrote:
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drivers for SATA disk controllers are implemented as part of the SCSI
code tree and thus show up as sdX drives rather than hdX
This is a normal condition.
As far as the "ghosting" showing up in Gnome's File
Browser I have no clue.
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Message-----
From: Mark Jarvis
Sent: Oct 1, 2009 2:28 AM
To: plug
Subject: SATA drive problem
Up until a couple of days ago, I had 3 EIDE drives and POST reported my
hard drives:
IDE Channel 0 Master a 120 GB drive
IDE Channel 0 Slave a 120 GB drive
IDE Channel 1 Master a 160 GB drive
IDE Channel 1 Slave a DVD
IDE Channel 2 Master None
IDE Channel 3
Master None
Simplifying things, channel 0 Master has my Windows Installation,
Channel 0 Slave my Linux stuff, and Channel 1 Master is a backup/clone
of
Channel 0 Master. Ubuntu sees the three drives as sda, sdb, and sdc.
Monday I picked up a couple of 1.0 TB SATA drives. Starting slowly, I
added one to Channel 2. I cloned the Windows drive (Channel 0 Master)
to it, pulled the power plug on Channel 0 Master, and changed the boot
sequence in Setup. I also changed the label on one of the partitions on
the new drive. POST reports:
IDE Channel 0 Master None
IDE Channel 0 Slave a 120 GB drive
IDE Channel 1 Master a 160 GB drive
IDE Channel 1 Slave a DVD
IDE Channel 2 Master a SATA 1 TB drive
IDE Channel 3
Master None
Windows works pretty much OK. Booting into Ubuntu 9.04, I was surprised
that Gnome's File Browser shows ghosts of the old channel 0
Master--complete with the labels of the old partitions, and does not show the new drive. I
brought up Gnome's gparted. It saw the new drive just fine--as sda! I
had expected almost anything--except sda. This is not a "real work"
Linux installation and besides, /home is in a different partition, so I
could just re-install and that would probably fix things, but I'd
rather make what's there work correctly.
Questions:
1) Why did a SATA drive on Channel 3 show up as sda?
2) How can I kick Gnome's File Browser into dropping the ghosts and
showing the contents of the new drive?
I guess that all of my admin/reference books are out of date, because I
can't find anything in them that helps. The MAN pages would probably
help, but I don't know where to start.
Any help, pointers to where I can find explanations, etc. will be much
appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark Jarvis
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