On Feb 12, 2008 9:39 PM, Sharif Oerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
a few kernel revisions ago (.18? .20?), they ported most (all?) of the PATA drivers to use the SCSI subsystem. The reason being, that they wanted to unify it under a single system. It sounded like the PATA code was getting hard to maintain [dont quote me on this] (disclaimer: Most is from memory, and may not be 100% correct) -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ nathan at linuxfromscratch org conathan at gmail com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
