Ubuntu 8.04 - all drives now SCSI

[Craig Routledge]

On 2008-05-10 22:19, John Moniz wrote:
> Thanks Scott. When I use newer kernel, which gives me the /dev/sd* 
> naming, I have problems with the video players finding DVD's. They seem 
> to be looking for devices that don't exist. With the older kernel, which 
> gives me the /dev/hdx naming, the problems are not there. Maybe 
> everything *should* be OK with a whole lot of fiddling, but clearly it's 
> causing me problems.

Hopefully you can find the setting somewhere in the video player's GUI.  
Failing that, you could always use brute force.

Say your DVD drive used to be /dev/hdc.  Then,

  grep -r '/dev/hdc' *

in your home directory may take awhile but should turn up something.

> Is this just a Ubuntu thing?

Nope.  It's a kernel thing.  And it's a permanent change, so I'm afraid 
you'll have to make the transition sometime.

If you are going to switch back and forth between the kernels, you really 
should start identifying partitions by label or uuid.

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