Kernel upgrade: /dev/hd* changed back to /dev/sd*, why?

[Thilo Six]

Adam Funk wrote the following on 11.06.2007 13:15
> I just upgraded (in Feisty) linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic
> (2.6.20-16.28) to 2.6.20-16.29, and on reboot my hard drives changed
> from /dev/hda and hdb to /dev/sda and sdb.  At some point in the
> recent past, they had changed from sda and sdb to hda and hdb, and for
> no apparent reason they've changed back?  Why?
> 
> 
> Also, those annoying characters in hddtemp that I can't get logcheck
> to ignore have come back!
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/112243/focus=112294
> 

.29 changelog:
   * Revert "{ata_,}piix: Consolidate PCI IDs. Move ata_piix pata IDs to
     piix"

In other words, your harddisc should now be again /dev/sd[a-z] and stay that way.

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Thilo

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