couple of dumb questions

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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
> Mine are defined by the bios as sata drives, but have no clue if they
> are being treated as pseudo SCSI drives or what. When I am at the kernel
> boot stage I see /dev/sda and /dev/sdb flash by. Check this from dmesg:
>
> SCSI device sda: 398294975 512-byte hdwr sectors (203927 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> SCSI device sda: 398294975 512-byte hdwr sectors (203927 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> sda: sda1 sda2
> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
>
> See?? This is what is first found.... although the order is buggered up,
> then I get this later on:

What order is buggered up?

>
> hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
>
> at the last I see this, where the harddrive is still labeled as the
> first SATA device, instead of being the second.

hda is your DVD drive.  That looks normal to me.

>
> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error)
> ata1: EH complete
> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error)
> ata1: EH complete
> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error)
> ata1: EH complete
> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error)
> ata1: EH complete
> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error)
> ata1: EH complete
> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error)
> ata1: EH complete
> SCSI device sda: 398294975 512-byte hdwr sectors (203927 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> SCSI device sda: 398294975 512-byte hdwr sectors (203927 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back

Other than the device errors above, your SATA drives are still identified 
as /dev/sda

>
> I'm a little confused by all of this. Whatever happened to plain
> vanilla /etc/fstab running the show??? It's like being in the Twilight
> Zone, while seated comfortably in an old Electra-Turbo Prop, looking out
> on the wing and seeing some hairy figure ripping off the engine hatch
> making sparks fly.

You didn't post your fstab, but fstab doesn't run any show other than 
defining mount points.

I guess I dont' see what the problem is here.

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