SATA drive problem

[Stephen]

This is normal. the first SATA device will become SDA unless you play
with bios or allready have an SDA

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis at cox.net> wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> The 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.
>
>
> -----Original 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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Stephen