Anyone else notice that the newer kernels use sda sdb etc for hard drive devices in the computer even if they are not serial ATA drives. I for the most part use serial ATA drives in my computers but I got a hankering for some retro and put together an old system from parts in the garage that system uses a EIDE drive but in linux /dev it still uses sda instead of the hda

Anyone know when this changed im a bit behind in the kernel updates as of late. The drives also work just fine this is more of a curiosity question really not a support related one.

Hi, this changed when distros started to use the SCSI (libata) based driver stack by default instead of the IDE one. its simply a matter of choice. The libata PATA drivers are available (at least partly) since at least 2.6.16. It has become the default only quite recenly though (a year or two).