Raymond Lillard (rlillard) wrote: >> "Christopher J. Bottaro" wrote: >> I have the exact same problem on my Dell Inspiron 6000: > > Yes, but do you also have the 82801FBM chip? > > Execute "lspci -v -v". Please look for the line like this: > > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev > 03) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Yup... 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 80 [Master]) I have some (newbie) questions. I thought my CD/DVD drive was a normal PATA drive. Why does it show up as /dev/hdx instead of /dev/sdx like my SATA hard drive? I thought IDE described PATA devices only? Thanks for the info.
