Disk changes from SCSI to SATA i.e. /dev/sda to /dev/hda in new kernel

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
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.21.90-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCwd: /home/kx
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux Kx-VMZ 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux