walt <w41...@gmail.com> writes: [...]
>> dmesg|grep -2 hdc >> >> [ 1.416847] hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected >> [ 1.417357] Probing IDE interface ide1... >> [ 2.089165] hdc: LITE-ON CD-ROM LTN-5291S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > You're still using the deprecated ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL disk drivers. You > should completely unselect that set of drivers and use the newer ones > in Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers instead. > > Doing that will cause all of your /dev/hd* to be renamed /dev/sd* > including any cd/dvd drives. My /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/sr0, > for example. The links are created automatically on the next reboot, > but you'll need to edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new drive names > before you reboot with the new kernel. What is the advantage of doing that? Are the other drivers better in some way. Maybe more likely to recognize /dev/hdc, or maybe more likely to give helpful output if that fails...?
