2.6.20 broke my friggin raid

Well not really, but it took me a few minutes of poking around to discover that all my IDE drives which are hooked to a Silicon Image PCI0680 card are now following SCSI naming conventions. So now what I thought was a clever attempt at averting trouble in the future by clearly marking all the devices in my system with a shiny silver marker is now just graffiti.


So if you've recently compiled a kernel without really paying attention (ahem) like me, and you lost your /dev/hdx, check yer /dev/sdx before you go back to 2.6.11.

penguins like ice

Wish I'd heard of this on Friday when trying to decide what to do after work. Instead of messing with Microsoft folks and getting a citation with the words "8' inflatable penguin" on it, I wound up ringing in happy hour at a pub four blocks from the invasion.