Well done Douglas

[Derek Broughton]

Knapp wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
> wrote:
>> Knapp wrote:
>>
>>> As a former programmer, I find that really interesting. I would bet
>>> that they skipped all the installs from before and just started after
>>> that. Mine skips the first slot with one drive and yours skips the
>>> first 2 with 2 drives. Question is was it a mistake or a failed plan?
>>>
>> Sort of both, I suspect.  When IDE drives first started to migrate to
>> SCSI, they must have manually removed the old rules, since most of us
>> don't have
>> this problem.  Yours seem to have been in the second wave of migrations,
>> and that _didn't_ get done.  I suspect the people testing it had already
>> been through that migration, so didn't see a regression.
> 
> But why change it to from IDE to SCSI? My drive is plugged into an IDE
> port.

Because the kernel now treats all disk devices the same way.  I'm not quite
sure, though, why this didn't happen for _everybody_ at the same time. 
Some kinds of IDE device didn't get converted when the majority did,
though.
-- 
derek