Re: [tlug] Help: unrecognized disk

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:45:08 -0700, "David J Iannucci"
<jlinux@example.com> wrote:

> The thing that's most mysterious about this is why an EIDE drive appears
> as a SCSI drive on Kubuntu.  Is this just a "feature" of the Ubuntu
> family, that they convert all disks internally to SCSI?

If Ubuntu sets up ide-scsi emulation then yes, kind of. It's a kernel
feature that's set up by many distros - although it's more or less
unnecessary with the 2.6.x family of kernels and recent versions of
cdrecord and dvd+rw-tools driving MMC-compliant IDE CD and DVD drives.

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