David W. Hodgins wrote:

>
> With 2008.1 (and prior), I have two ide (pata) hard drives, hda, and hdb,
> a dvd burner, hdc, and a usb drive, sda.
>
> With 2009.0, the device names are changed as follows
> hda -> sda
> hdb -> sdb
> hdc -> sr0
> sda -> sdc
>
> When I booted the install for 2009.0, I got the warning about the number
> of partitions being inconsistent. Rebooted to 2008.1, moved things around
> and deleted the partitions hda16, 17 & 18.
>
> Installed 2009.0, and I've started to get used to the new device names.
>
> One problem I had, that took me a while to figure out. Getting VirtualBox
> working (having copied the settings from 2008.1), the cd device was still
> set to hdc. VirtualBox doesn't notice or warn you about this. It just
> caused a blue screen when trying to start xp, under VirtualBox.
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
>
Sounds as though they think that PATA drives are now history. I noticed
that my Asus CD-Rom, previously /dev/hda, was now /dev/s** - forgotten
what. I have reinstalled 2008.1. If others can survive on MDK 10, I can
keep 2008.1 a bit longer.

In my experience, VirtualBox was using /dev/cdrom - which is a symlink
anyway.

Another thing, I took my PATA drive out and mounted it in a USB case because
the BIOS insisted it was the primary drive. I have just found a BIOS
setting to take care of that.

Personally, I am looking at a change of desktop. It is about time that KDE
went back to being a desktop environment, and not trying to replace MCC.
But GNOME is a joke.

Doug.
--
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:54:34 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

> Sounds as though they think that PATA drives are now history. I noticed
> that my Asus CD-Rom, previously /dev/hda, was now /dev/s**

No. All that happened was that the special kernel interface for PATA
drives has been deprecated and PATA drives are now treated like SCSI,
SATA, and USB drives have been, using the same kernel interface.

"David W. Hodgins" wrote:

>With 2009.0, the device names are changed as follows
>hda -> sda
>hdb -> sdb
>hdc -> sr0
>sda -> sdc

I'd used /dev/cdrom in some scripts, and that still works. It did link
to hdc and now links to sr0.

--
Dave Farrance

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:54:34 -0400, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

> In my experience, VirtualBox was using /dev/cdrom - which is a symlink
> anyway.

I had selected the cd/dvd drive using the dropdown selection box in VirtualBox
settings. In ~/VirtualBox/Machines/$vmname/$vmname.xml, it put


After using the settings to reselect the host drive, it now has


So the VirtualBox settings use the actual device name, not a symlink.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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