On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:46:47 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 07:35:48PM +1300, John Batistic wrote: > > Following a Sid re-install to a sata drive, Debian does not recognise the > > XP pata drive. > > > > Mobo: ASUS P5K SE > > Dual boot: gldr on XP > > Kernel : 2.6.26-1-686 > > > > The previous install was LVM and both drives were recognised. This > > install is not LVM. > > Sid may be recognising all drives (sata and pata) as sd*. Check dmesg > for what all drives it finds. There have been many threads on here > about drive name remapping. LVM looks for header (footer?) info on all > drives regardless of names and is therefore immune to name remapping. > > Look in /dev/disk/ and its subdirectories. > > Also check out /sys/block, /proc/scsi/scsi, and /proc/ide/ > > In short, your drives may be there, just under a different name. > > Doug.
Checking the above subdirectories doesn't reveal any other info. Dmseg only seems to show the drives listed in /dev/, /dev/disk/ & /sys/block How old are the previous threads? Thanks John Batistic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
