couple of dumb questions

[Net Llama!]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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

Umm, no.  I'm not sure why you think a PATA DVD drive should be given a 
SCSI block device name, but that's never the way its worked in Fedora land 
(or any other distro I've ever used in the past 8+ years).  Your PATA DVD 
drive should be /dev/hda (and is), and your SATA HDD should be /dev/sda 
(and is).  Unless you can point me to some official documentation that 
suggests otherwise, I think your'e really confused, although I don't know 
why, as none of this is new behavior.

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