From: Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>
To: beolach@juno.com
Cc: hammer@revobild.net, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: suddenly the "device" identification changed
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:19:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EF5E52B.8090307@bcgreen.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030621.214715.1932.0.beolach@juno.com>
beolach@juno.com wrote:
> What I would guess happened is somehow your IDE channels got reversed.
> This an option designed for those (like myself) who have their main
> disk drives on an offboard IDE controller. On a "normal" setup, the
> motherboards onboard IDE controller's two channels would be ide0
> and ide1, and any offboard controllers (which, on a laptop, you would
> most likely not have) would have channels ide2 and ide3. If the
> option to reverse the IDE channels is selected, ide0 is swapped with
> ide2, as are ide1 and ide3. This also affects the drive device ids.
The reason why this wouldn't bother DOS/Windows is that dos/windows
automatically renumbers devices. Since the CD-ROM is still the
second IDE device on your box, it will still show up as D:
RedHat has a program called Kudzu that probes for changes like that...
It's reall good at popping up at boot time with messages like (The
Cdrom Drive at XX has been removed yes?? /// There is a new cdrom
drive at YYYY Yes??)
I'm surprised that mandrake doesn't have something similar.
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2003-06-22 3:47 suddenly the "device" identification changed beolach
2003-06-22 17:19 ` Stephen Samuel [this message]
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2003-06-23 0:00 Heimo Claasen
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