Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

[Dale]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 12:49 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA
>> drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them
>> and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all. Is
>> there a boot option "noide" or some other switch I can use?
>
> You do the labeling *before* you switch to the new kernel.  Once you
> get it working correctly with your current kernel, then you can
> upgrade to the new ATA drivers and it will just work (which is the
> whole point of this exercise.)
>
>

OK.  Finally got updated to a new kernel.  I had some trouble with my 
sensors but after a bit of googling I found a workaround.  It appears 
that the kernel folks are trying to fix one thing and broke something 
else.  lol  Progress.

Anyway, this did sort of work out to be weird and not what I expected at 
all.  I expected the drives to be laid out in this way:

sda  first drive with old ide
sdb  second drive with old ide
sdc  third drive with old ide
sdd  forth drive with a SATA controller

Well, it actually sees the drive connected to the SATA controller first 
then the other drives follow along after that in order.  Naturally when 
I first tried to boot I was pointing to sda6 for my root partition.  
Well, it was actually on sdb6.  It did list the drives just before the 
error and the blinking lights on the keyboard.  No scroll back either.  
:-(  I saw just enough to be able to figure out what drives were what.

Is there some way to get it to change this or am I stuck?  My concern is 
that I plan to add another drive to the SATA card soon and that will 
move everything up another notch.   I would really like the IDE drives 
to be seen first since I rarely change them.

Still thinking about getting grub to see labels.  That would help too.  
Actually, that would be a good fix too.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)