[Liverpool] More screwy hardware madness

[Mark Atherton]

David Watson wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 21:18 +0000, Mark Atherton wrote:
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>>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
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>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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Tried that and now all im left with is half a wood pidgeon hangind out 
of the floppy drive.