couple of dumb questions

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
>On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 19:23 +0800, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>> Bob Hemus wrote:
>> > Seems to mew with Open Linux e2.4 all i had to do was drop a cd into the
>> > tray and the music played??  Not so with SuSE 10.1.  What do I need to
>> > do except download each tune, extract it and then play with embedded
>> > player?  The other is to make /dev/hdc belong to me and not root.  I
>> > need to get to SU and mount /dev/hdc /mnt to get the tunes out of the
>> 
>> I found that most DVD/CD automount doesn't usually work....
>
>I >think< I might have a clue on this... 
>It's the new kernel bunch having a go with us that have sata drives and
>instead of being /dev/sda it's being turned into /dev/hda somehow
>through udev or the kernel or something. This does sound kinda lame, but
>I'm not an expert on the underpinnings of the kernel devel. 

This may have something to do with the BIOS as well.  I've seen 64-bit
Asus main boards that treat SATA drives as IDE, thus appear as /dev/hde
and /dev/hdf to Linux.  One of our systems is running SLES9-SP3 an Asus
K8N where the SATA drives appear as /dev/hde and /dev/hdf while another
is running SLES10 on an Asus A8N SLI Deluxe shows the SATA drives as
/dev/sda, etc.

I took me a while to figure out the /dev/hde stuff on the K8N as I was
expecting the pseudo-scsi designations.

Bill
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