Disk changes from sda to hda in new the kernel 2.6.24.7

[Vikrant]

Binary package hint: yelp

Using Hardy, 8.04 All latest updates applied.

Today's update pushed the new kernel, 2.6.24.7 from 2.6.24.5

Booting into new kernel mounts the drive as /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda.

This is a laptop drive. The drive details are :

Model Family: Seagate Momentus 5400.2 series
Device Model: ST9100824A
Serial Number: 5PL03TK2
Firmware Version: 3.04
User Capacity: 100,030,242,816 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2
Local Time is: Sat Feb 9 07:00:32 2008 IST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

The drive used to mount as /dev/sda in all previous versions.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 9 06:56:00 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Uname: Linux Kx-VMZ 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Vikrant (vikrant82)]

Concerns following packages :

linux-headers-2.6.24-7 (2.6.24-7.12)
linux-headers-2.6.24-7-generic (2.6.24-7.12)
linux-image-2.6.24-7-generic (2.6.24-7.12)
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-7-generic (2.6.24.7-7.17)
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-7-generic (2.6.24-7.12)

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Thank you for reporting this and attempting to make Ubuntu better. However, I do not believe that this is a bug. There is no guarantee that device names will be stable across kernel versions (or hardware changes). This is why Ubuntu uses UUIDs wherever possible (in fstab, etc) - these do not change when the device node changes. If something no longer works with this new device naming, please state what it is, so we can investigate and fix it.

[Vikrant (vikrant82)]

I could have rather marked it as a question. I thought my drive was mistakenly being run on SATA drivers. So does that means that hard disks these days can be run on any drivers. I mean, my concern is that it does not affect the hard disk in the long run.