From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Samuel Subject: Re: suddenly the "device" identification changed Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:19:39 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EF5E52B.8090307@bcgreen.com> References: <20030621.214715.1932.0.beolach@juno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030621.214715.1932.0.beolach@juno.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: beolach@juno.com Cc: hammer@revobild.net, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@bcgreen.com http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication. Transformation touching the jewel within each person and bring it to life. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs