latest feisty kernel can't see hda

[Nick Sanders]

On Thursday 26 Apr 2007, Terence Simpson wrote:
> Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > I guess I deserved it.  I gave my wife a hard time about not getting
> > her updates, so last night she clicked "yes" on the upgrade to feisty.
> >  I'm trying to put the peices back together :-(
> >
> > My main problem is that the new kernel (2.6.20-15) boots up, then
> > can't find /dev/hda.  The root partition is on hda, and the /home
> > directory is on sda.  It boots up and says that it couldn't find the
> > filesystem (I can't give you the exact quote because it isn't able to
> > write to the filesystem since it can't find it).
> >
> > I can boot off an earlier kernel (2.6.17-11) and everything works fine.
> >
> > I tried reinstalling the new kernel with no change in behavior.
> >
> > Anyone seen this?
> >
> > Michael
>
> In feisty there is no hda, everything is done in SCSI. so /dev/sda may
> be your old hda.
>
> Tez

Not true, for some chipsets Feisty uses the old ide drivers (like mine which 
is via).

Nick