Comments on: Linux SATA Drive is Being Displayed as /dev/hda Instead Of /dev/sda

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:59:13 +0000

I was having the same symptoms as you, but none of your solutions helped because my hard drive was corrupted. It took almost 3 hours to get to 50% formatted — I wasn’t really paying attention. I’ve formatted IDE133 drives in less than a minute with centos — so I figured something was up. I popped another SATA drive into my box, and I was installing centos, and past formatting in no time.

By: Rahul Panwar

Rahul Panwar — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 05:55:25 +0000

Thanks a lot, Vivek,
Following option works for me:
set SATA Controller Mode option to “Enhanced”

It also increases the performance of my HDD.

Rahul

By: Edward Quick

Edward Quick — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:09:14 +0000

Thanks Vivek, I just installed centos 5.5 which was running like a dog until I spotted I had the same problem you describe above. My bios options for SATA were a bit different to yours but after playing with those, it’s all working. Nice one! :)
Ed.

By: ranjeet

ranjeet — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:00:27 +0000

no never Becoz system automatically generated partition name . if u want to change then u can change becouz linux is open sources

By: John Jeffers

John Jeffers — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:29:05 +0000

On openSuSE all drives are shown as /dev/sd? no matter what kind of drives they are including usb drives.