Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:05:28PM +0200, Khelben Blackstaff wrote: > > 1) > > The device choice was always a gray area in linux but in older times > > it was more clear. With 2.4 linux kernel there was ide-scsi support. > > With early 2.6 there was dev=ATAPI:x,y,z. > > > > Nowadays with recent kernels (for example 2.6.28) i can use two namings. > > The /dev/sr0 and the usual x,y,z naming. > > Joerg has given some advice, but I just wanted to add this: > > When using dev=FOO:x,y,z on recent 2.6 Linux kernels, FOO should be > ATA and not ATAPI.
You don't need ATA: anymore since November 2006 and there already is a note that ATAPI: is a less good idea. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
