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Re: [tlug] Help: unrecognized disk



David J Iannucci wrote:
> 5. Now it's working.  In the meantime I've got a copy of SUSE 10.3. SUSE
>    and Knoppix can both see the drive as /dev/hda.  Now Kubuntu also
>    sees it, but *GET THIS*, on Kubuntu it's /dev/sda
>   

It looks like Kubuntu is using libata.  A quote from a lawn article on
libata[1]

    "The issue that gets everybody's attention, however, is that, as
with all drives handled through libata, PATA drives show up as if they
were SCSI disks, and are named /dev/sd*

Edward

1. http://lwn.net/Articles/198344/


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