couple of dumb questions

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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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.

Actually, that's just SLES9 being retarded and using the old, deprecated 
libata kernel bits which treated everything but actual SCSI drives as 
PATA.  Thankfully, they kicked that stupidity with SLE*10, and joined the 
21st century.

I've not come across any recent (within the last year) Linux distro that 
treated SATA as anything but actual SCSI (/dev/sd*).

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