On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Lindsay Haisley wrote:

> I'll probably get kernel 2.6.34, update udev, and give it another shot.

This may have been mentioned already somewhere in the thread earlier, 
but aside from the changes to udev, recent versions of the kernel have 
also switched from the former behavior of just using Sata drivers for 
real Sata drives and still providing the old ATA drivers for Pata, to 
prefering Sata drivers for everything, even drives with Pata interfaces 
(including DVD drives).  The old Pata driver tree is still in the 
kernel, but is now completely deprecated for just about everything now.

So the switch from /dev/hd* to /dev/sd* for such devices isn't just 
cosmetic -- everything is now being handled by libata (which is the Sata 
drivers), and if you have any Pata device drivers in your kernel config, 
you'll want to get rid of those and replace them with equivalent drivers 
from the Sata section of the kernel.

Not doing this will cause very strange behavior with regard to DVD 
drives in udev and hal, especially if you use Gnome.

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