Are all Ubuntu IDE drives now sda?

[James Takac]

On Friday 08 February 2008 12:24:40 Larry Alkoff wrote:
> James Takac wrote:
> > On Friday 08 February 2008 10:36:21 Larry Alkoff wrote:
> >> I've put together a Ubuntu Server edition 7.10 using a single PATA IDE
> >> (not SATA) drive.
> >>
> >> In /etc/fstab, I specify the drives with their ssid.
> >>
> >> On bootup, the system is calling the partitions sda1 and sda5 (root and
> >> home).
> >>
> >> So my question is, has Ubuntu given up the old HDA nomenclature in favor
> >> of SDA in all cases of PATA and SATA drives?
> >>
> >> Larry
> >
> > Hi Larry
> >
> > I believe it was switched to this method at some point during feisty
> >
> > James
>
> Hello James.
>
> The switch to sda is fine by me.  I just wanted to make sure nothing
> "funny" was happening since I was expecting PATA IDE would be called
> 'hda' etc.
>
> Larry


Hi Larry

Well, I just learnt a lil more from some of the other replies as to why and 
when

James