[BBLISA] Why do Linux rescue CDs make SATA disks look like SCSI ?

[David Allan]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Brian McAllister wrote:

>  > The change causing non-SCSI disks to appear as sdX rather than hdX is not
>  > distro specific, it's a base kernel change.  With very new kernels, both
>  > IDE and SATA appear as SCSI disks.  There is some information available
>  > online as to why this change was made.
>
> Clearly one can choose to use the old driver in a new kernel.  Is it
> possible to build a kernel that has both drivers available as modules and
> select which one to use at boot time ?

I don't know the answer to that; I'd guess it depends on the particular 
kernel version.

Dave