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From: Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@st.com>
To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 08:16:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50ED1969.3010309@st.com> (raw)

On 01/07/2013 08:35 AM, Dale wrote:
> As I understand it, /dev/hdxx is no longer
> supported on current kernels.  All hard drives are /dev/sdxx and optical
> drives are /dev/sr0(1,2,3,4 etc).

Not true, I'm using /dev/hd for all my PATA HD and DVD drives and
/dev/sd for the SATA HDs. Systems are ~amd64.

At the time /dev/sr was introduced I tried it and had problems on the
DVD burner (I don't recall which ones, maybe just related to the missing
/dev/dvd link) so I decided to stick with the old driver.

Is there any advantage to switch to the SATA driver also for PATA drives?

raffaele

             reply	other threads:[~2013-01-09  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-09  7:16 Raffaele BELARDI [this message]
2013-01-09  9:01 ` [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore) Dale
2013-01-09  9:32   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-09  9:59     ` Dale
2013-01-09 10:24       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-09 18:58     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-01-09 22:42     ` felix
2013-01-10 21:41       ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-10 22:14         ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-24  3:42           ` Frank Steinmetzger
2013-01-09  9:57   ` Raffaele BELARDI
2013-01-09 10:35     ` Dale
2013-01-09 18:59     ` Volker Armin Hemmann

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