[mythtv-users] OT: Can IDE and SCSI mix?

Lonnie Borntreger myth at borntreger.com
Sat Jan 8 03:01:18 EST 2005


On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 00:25 -0600, Greg Mitchell wrote:
> I could see SATA and SCSI having problems coexisting, since Linux seems 
> to treat SATA and SCSI similarly.  At least in Gentoo, my SATA drive 
> comes up as /dev/sd0.
> 
> Note that I'm not saying it's impossible to run SATA and SCSI, just that 
> it wouldn't surprise me that there might be problems.

Not too long ago I used two SCSI tapes, 3 IDE HDs, an IDE CD/RW (using a
SCSI layer), and a USB drive (using a SCSI layer) all at the same time.
I used SCSI and IDE together as far back as kernel 0.99pl13.  I highly
doubt there are problems with SATA and SCSI.

Lonnie




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