SATA & Software RAID and SATA issues.

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 00:45, Ric Moore wrote:

> > > How does boot get on /dev/sda1??? When it is a DvD device with no
> > > partition? /dev/sdb is my harddrive. It has partitions. Is there some
> > > sort of relocation going on with VolGroup? I really miss the pre-udev
> > > days. 
> > 
> > /boot is not on the DVD. The DVD is being seen as an IDE device. It is 
> > the master device on the first PIDE interface. Are you sure your SATA 
> > drive was not /dev/sda during the install? (Are you confusing /dev/hda 
> > and /dev/sda?
> 
> You are right, /boot is certainly not on the DVD, but this system thinks
> so anyway. And, I was wrong wrong in the heat of the moment. My 200 gig
> harddrive is on the same cable as the Dvd and it is listed as /sda2 by
> the The Logical (yeah right!) Volume Management App which says the
> harddrive is /dev/sda2 but every application for the Dvd complains
> that /dev/hda1 can't be found. 

What kind of sata permits more than one device per cable?  If
they are IDE they should be hd devices not sd.

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  Les Mikesell
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