On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:01:06 Mark Olbert wrote: > Quick question: I have 3 SATA hard disks, a PATA DVD-R/W, and a PATA Zip > drive in my LFS6.3 system. All five devices show up as SCSI devices (e.g., > sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, sr0). > > That's not a big deal -- although it took me a little while to figure out > how the DVD-R/W was named -- but it strikes me as odd. > > Why are non-SCSI devices showing up as SCSI devices?
Well, my SATA hard drive has always shown up as sda (on Ubuntu) - I think that's standard (though I'm not sure why). Not sure about the the PATA devices. Sharif
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