Re: Pata problem

[John Batistic <john@batistic.net.nz>]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:46:47 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 07:35:48PM +1300, John Batistic wrote:
> > Following a Sid re-install to a sata drive, Debian does not recognise the
> > XP pata drive.
> >
> > Mobo: ASUS P5K SE
> > Dual boot: gldr on XP
> > Kernel : 2.6.26-1-686
> >
> > The previous install was LVM and both drives were recognised. This
> > install is not LVM.
>
> Sid may be recognising all drives (sata and pata) as sd*.  Check dmesg
> for what all drives it finds.  There have been many threads on here
> about drive name remapping.  LVM looks for header (footer?) info on all
> drives regardless of names and is therefore immune to name remapping.
>
> Look in /dev/disk/ and its subdirectories.
>
> Also check out /sys/block, /proc/scsi/scsi, and /proc/ide/
>
> In short, your drives may be there, just under a different name.
>
> Doug.

Checking the above subdirectories doesn't reveal any other info.
Dmseg only seems to show the drives listed in /dev/,   /dev/disk/ & /sys/block

How old are the previous threads?

Thanks
John Batistic