K. Piche schrieb:
Give or take the testing repo I'm always up to date! :) On my regular system: [22:50 kpiche@puffin ~]$ pacman -Q kernel26 kernel26 2.6.23.1-6 [22:50 kpiche@puffin ~]$ and HOOKS="base udev autodetect ide filesystems" gives me hda.
The ISO uses pata hook which gives sda. Obviously my mkinitcpio.conf is old. I'm still curious as to what the recommended module is...
We use pata as the default, because in the future, there will be no ide anymore (althought that may take another year or two). However, pata_sis is still experimental and I use the ide driver on my desktop for stability reasons. Some older Intel chipsets had problems in earlier versions, but I think those should all be fine now in 2.6.23. The rule is: If there are strange messages during the boot process with pata or access seems slow, use ide. Otherwise, use pata.