I have a problem with the new IDE drivers under libata. I maintain the Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO, available at the Linux Documentation Project, or at http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html. The HOWTO includes several scripts which one runs at backup time. These collect metadata (partition information, e.g.) and create a series of one can use for bare metal recovery. The user should be able to boot any recent Linux (probably a live CD), e.g. finnix, and run the scripts to get a minimal running system, ready for further data recovery. I can run my backup scripts on F7T4 and they see the IDE drives as SCSI drives. So all the restoration scripts refer to /dev/sd*. Not all recovery distributions of Linux (e.g. finnix) have the IDE drives show up as SCSI drives (/dev/sd*). So they will want to point to IDE drives as /dev/hd*. Some questions: * At backup time, is there any way to detect whether a drive that appears as /dev/sdX is an IDE drive? * At backup time, is there any way to find out which /dev/hdX drive it would be so I can mung the restoration scripts approriately. * I found several comments on this list and elsewhere that indicate that /dev/hda will map to /dev/sda. Is this always true? Thank you -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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