Well done Douglas

[Knapp]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
>> But why change it to from IDE to SCSI? My drive is plugged into an IDE
>> port.
>
> Nowadays the SCSI driver is also used for IDE and SATA drives. That's good
> because there is only one section of the kernel responsible for disks,
> but it is confusing for users. Especially for users who know there is a
> difference between IDE and SCSI and that IDE devices used to have hd*
> names.
>
> BTW: Congrats for solving the mystery why there were /dev/dvd1
> and /dev/cdrom1 but not /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom.
>
>
> Nils

Thanks, but I am not really sure that I should get the credit. All I
did was see that it was not an encryption error but something wrong
with the drive numbers/ids (whatever it is called) and guess that
missing dvd in the devs must be wrong and therefor something setting
that up was broken. Lots of others help get to the bottom of it.



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Douglas E Knapp

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