On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 13:13, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > 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. I believe the PX-716A is a normal PATA drive. (the cable kind of gives it away. :) ) Mine shows up as /dev/hda as well. The sdx convention indicates a SATA type drive so the 716A would not show up as that type. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it. -- Heisenberg
