On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:00:36 +0100, wcth wrote:

>the harddisk is recognized as /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda with kernel
>2.6.21.5
>Is there any way to change this ? a parameter to give to the kernel ?

Yes, yes.

You give no information, perhaps you compiled in the obsolete sata
driver instead of the current driver?

Grant.

Grant wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:00:36 +0100, wcth wrote:
>
>
>> the harddisk is recognized as /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda with kernel
>> 2.6.21.5
>> Is there any way to change this ? a parameter to give to the kernel ?
>>
>
> Yes, yes.
>
> You give no information, perhaps you compiled in the obsolete sata
> driver instead of the current driver?
>
> Grant.
>

I did not compile anything, I took the new kernel in slackware-current

On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:00:36 +0100, wcth wrote:

> the harddisk is recognized as /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda with kernel
> 2.6.21.5
> Is there any way to change this ? a parameter to give to the kernel ?
>
I noticed this on a Latitude also. The kernel parameter is hda=noprobe

The other difference is that cpu scaling is now managed by the
acpi-cpufreq module.

--
Douglas Mayne

Douglas Mayne wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:00:36 +0100, wcth wrote:
>
>
>> the harddisk is recognized as /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda with kernel
>> 2.6.21.5
>> Is there any way to change this ? a parameter to give to the kernel ?
>>
>>
> I noticed this on a Latitude also. The kernel parameter is hda=noprobe
>
> The other difference is that cpu scaling is now managed by the
> acpi-cpufreq module.
>
>
Thank you very much. It works now