On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:02:42PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > If they are serial ata drives, I thought newer kernels would use > /dev/sda etc. Is this really a ide drive? Or do you have the BIOS > pretend they are?
Please gve me a little credit. I can screw up lots of things and forget lots of things, but this drive is a replacement for a drive so old that it is labeled IDE, not PATA, it has that awful big flat ribbon, and there are two IDE connectors on the main board (which is old enough to be called a mother board), and there were two IDE DVD drives on there also, in fact hiding the IDE drive so that I had to trace cables to find it. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o