[Liverpool] More screwy hardware madness

[David Watson]

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 21:18 +0000, Mark Atherton wrote:
> i recently have had a wierd problem with hardware.  its kinda hard to 
> explain. Basically all the harddisks on the first ide channel are 
> getting marked /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd. and all the ones on the second 
> channel are name /dev/hda  and /dev/hdb. Which is backawards and is 
> messing up stuff including the boot process meaning ti wont boot 
> anymore. And any attempt to reinstall has a bit of trouble because this 
> backwards naming is confusing the hell out of me. Anyone ever 
> experienced a similar problem

Hmm strange problem, but after this weekend nothing hardware related
would surprise me.  I would recommend some kind of sacrifice, I know
SCSI requires a goat but I think IDE maybe something smaller. ;-/

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