[CS-FSLUG] udev and SATA DVDRs

[Marco Tedaldi]

Hello

I'd say: no problem at all. It's not anymore 1998!

SATA Devices should be run in AHCI-Mode anyway (and not IDE).
Even RAID-Mode should not change anything but make the boot process a
bit longer, but as long as you don't add your drive to a RAID in the
utilities there, there is no problem.

And since all actual Linux distros mount the devices by uuid instead of
devicename, there should be no problem if devicenames change (they
should not change anyway).

I have my whole stuff set to ahci, and I'm using my  SATA dvd-burner
without any problems.

Marco

Am Dienstag, den 19.01.2010, 00:57 -0500 schrieb Fred A. Miller:
> On 01/19/2010 12:33 AM, EnzoAeneas wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Fred A. Miller
> > <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> >         On 01/18/2010 10:20 PM, Ed Hurst wrote: 
> >         > sjm wrote:
> >         > 
> >         >   
> >         > > > GH50N. It's linked as /dev/sr0. The BIOS offers IDE mode and RAID, and I
> >         > > > have it set to the former, which is the default.
> >         > > >       
> >         > > I can't quite remember, but if you have an extra HDD, I'd try the BIOS
> >         > > on the other setting.  I know Windows and Linux seemed to like the
> >         > > option that the other OS didn't when I last was messing with the BIOS on
> >         > > a similar problem.
> >         > >     
> >         > I remember messing with it when I tried to get CentOS just to boot the
> >         > installer disk. It kept loading it's older piix driver and hanging. With
> >         > RAID turned it, CentOS called it ahci. However, I don't have another
> >         > drive. I'm not sure how Ubuntu would react to that sort of change.
> >         > 
> >         >   
> >         
> >         
> >         More than likely wouldn't see the drive any longer.
> >         
> >         Fred
> > 
> > 
> > But you could boot via a livecd, mount that drive, and change your
> > fstab to the proper HDD device and modify your kernel boot
> > parameters to point your HDD properly. 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Maybe not......if the BIOS doesn't like it, you aren't going to get
> Linux to work with it.
> 
> Fred
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