> AFAIK those are for SATA drives not for PATA (aka IDE). --SS
>
> > PS on newer kernels the device names will probably be sd* rather than
> > hd* -- even for IDE devices: the new IDE controller exposes a
> > SCSI-like interface, AFAIR.
Right, however only old hardware will have PATA drives. It is easy to
think "UltraIDE" and to still have the device names shift on you.
This is one of the reasons Ubuntu migrated /etc/fstab to refer to
devices by UUIDs (you can also refer to them by label, but UUID is
guaranteed to be unique).
Cheers,
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