Disk renaming udev rule

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I have two separate controllers, SATA and PATA.
I would like to rename drives connected to the PATA to hd[a-z], and their partitions to hd[a-z][0-9].

# udevadm info -a -p /sys/block/sdd
[...]
 looking at device '[...]/target8:0:1/8:0:1:0/block/sdd':
    KERNEL=="sdd"
    SUBSYSTEM=="block"
[...]
looking at parent device '[...]/target8:0:1': 
    KERNELS=="target8:0:1"
    SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi"
[...]
 looking at parent device '[...]':
    KERNELS=="0000:02:00.1"
    SUBSYSTEMS=="pci"
    DRIVERS=="pata_jmicron"

Knowing that i tried to write new rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/59-drives.rules:

DRIVERS=="pata_jmicron", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNELS=="target8:0:0", NAME="hda"
DRIVERS=="pata_jmicron", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNELS=="target8:0:1", NAME="hdb"

No luck though. What am I missing?

PS. Persistent block device naming? No, thank you.

Answer

Turns out kernel devices cannot be renamed:

udevd[648]: NAME="hdb" ignored, kernel device nodes can not be renamed; please fix it in /etc/udev/rules.d/59-drives.rules:2

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