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Ubuntu recognizes IDE disk as SCSI

Bug #292235 reported by Lukáš Chmela
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Bug Description

I think, it was Feisty, when I last saw my IDE disk mapped as "hda".
Now, it is mapped as "sdb", after my first SCSI disk (the only SCSI disk, I have).
The Ubuntu installer says, it is "SCSI3", although I have only two HDDs in my PC.

However, GRUB recognizes both disks fine (still the same way) - IDE as (hd0) and SCSI as (hd1).
I installed Ubuntu on the IDE disk, and after successful installation, I had to edit the menu.lst, becouse there was line "root (hd1,4)", but GRUB mapped the IDE disk well, on (hd0) - so I always got an error.

Now with Intrepid, the "uuid" command is used instead. But the IDE disk is still mapped badly (to sdb, although it should be hda).

I have VIA VT8237 southbridge.
If you need further information, let me now.

Thanks in advance

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selinuxium (selinuxium) wrote :

This is the new convention for naming the hard drive devices.
This is not a bug

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Lukáš Chmela (lukaschmela) wrote :

No, I don't agree with you.
It's not ok, especially becouse of the mismatch between Ubuntu and GRUB numbering.
All drives recognized by Ubuntu as (hd1) must be then manually remapped to (hd0) and the same with (hd0) recognized by Ubuntu.

This ugly bug is still present in Ubuntu Jaunty and also Karmic.
It can be verified in Ubuntu installer through "Install GRUB onto (hd0)" (it is then installed onto hd1, which is my second disk attached through SCSI, recognized as sda in all versions of Ubuntu including Feisty and older)

Changed in ubuntu:
status: Invalid → Incomplete
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Philip Muškovac (yofel) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in the kernel (linux).

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.
And sorry for the late response.

Is this still reproducable in lucid? If yes, can you please run
apport-collect 292235
from a termial? Thanks.

affects: ubuntu → linux (Ubuntu)
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Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee) wrote :

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu development release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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tags: added: kj-expired
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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