Broken DVD/Kaffeine player

Jonas Norlander jonorland at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 13:07:20 UTC 2008


2008/9/1 Constantinos Maltezos <pandarsson at yahoo.com>:
> On Monday 01 September 2008 4:47:09 am Knapp wrote:
>> Is this all correct??
>>
>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>> #
>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
>> # /dev/sda7
>> UUID=6d02b2c5-6b57-44ed-89f0-141afc6ca8de /               ext3
>> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>> # /dev/sda6
>> UUID=4f9b82bd-3d8c-46c8-950a-4a8acc86df87 /home           ext3
>> defaults        0       2
>> # /dev/sda5
>> UUID=79B2-0C4E  /windows        vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0
>>    1 # /dev/sda8
>> UUID=578be745-0d4a-413c-8de2-48e0aa6cd074 none            swap    sw
>>            0       0
>> /dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
>
> I might be totally off base here as I haven't messed with motherboards or
> controller cards for quite a while, but is it even possible to have both an
> hda and an sda?  I experienced a problem while installing another distro where
> the installation CD was loading the wrong kernel module for my chipset and it
> interpreted my hda as sda (and so forth) and was therefore was unable to mount
> anything until I changed the module.  Unless I'm completely wrong, I would say
> that last line stands out as being out of sequence.  Unless you can have both
> (and if that s in sda stands for scsi, I can understand that), it shouldn't
> even be the "a" drive.
>

In recent kernel (Hardy) both ATA/SATA harddisks and dvd drives show
up as scsi devices. The /dev/hda in Knapps fstab is could be a
leftover after upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy, is that so Knapp?

/ Jonas




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