couple of dumb questions

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 16:19 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

It's supposed to be /dev/sda and the harddrive /dev/sdb. That's the
order they were installed as. When I first installed FC6 from scratch,
the installer saw this and worked with it. No problems. Post install,
the harddrive is treated as /dev/sda and the CD/DvD treated as /dev/hda/
<boggles> Using the hd* scheme of things, the CD/DvD IS treated
correctly as the first drive. Under FC5, everything was normal for
awhile until a kernel upgrade and then it went into the dustbin. It's
been like this ever since and Xine has a fit finding the Dvd as /dev/hda
although the auto-mount pops up and asks what I want to do. Back when
Xine saw /dev/sda and it all worked just fine. Ric



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