From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123AB13838E for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57EA021C013; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:23:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eu1sys200aog113.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog113.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.135]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 435DB21C04F for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.dmz-eu.st.com ([164.129.1.35]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob113.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKUO0aeJ3Z4PRhvN78BrR0L2GT0n4NG2hk@postini.com; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:21:30 UTC Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (zeta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 49827E6 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:21:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Webmail-eu.st.com (safex1hubcas1.st.com [10.75.90.14]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id D86512665 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:21:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from SAFEX1MAIL4.st.com ([10.75.90.10]) by SAFEX1HUBCAS1.st.com ([10.75.90.14]) with mapi; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 08:21:25 +0100 From: Raffaele BELARDI To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 08:16:57 +0100 Subject: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore) Thread-Topic: PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore) Thread-Index: Ac3uOe5jNl3KBU8YTUWq8fayFIIQwQ== Message-ID: <50ED1969.3010309@st.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14.1 x-enigmail-version: 1.4.6 acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 5d5678fc-3b3d-409f-b6dc-1a254ece2a51 X-Archives-Hash: 0eb8b39ff728bb3a171f72a8b96e70f9 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=