On Aug 23, 2007, at 9:08, Lamar Owen wrote: > Many motherboards that have more than two SATA connectors put two > on the > SouthBridge's IDE-type controller, and the others on 'something else'. > Usually, the 'something else' shows as a SCSI controller in Linux. > How many > SATA connectors are there? The User guide says they are 5 connectors, but I can only see 4. Three of them are very close to each other, and the fourth one is a little further away. Wouldn't you know it, my boot drive is connected to the one that is by itself. Maybe if it had been connected to one of the other three, it would have been /dev/sda (or / dev/sdb). Like I mentioned in my previous post, I have two hard disks and two optical drives. Here are the device names: # ls -l /dev/[cdhs][vd]* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Aug 20 12:24 /dev/cdrom -> hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 20 12:24 /dev/cdrom1 -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 20 12:24 /dev/cdwriter -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Aug 20 12:24 /dev/dvd -> hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 20 12:24 /dev/dvd1 -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 20 12:24 /dev/dvdwriter -> scd0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Aug 20 12:23 /dev/hda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Aug 20 12:23 /dev/hda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 Aug 20 12:23 /dev/hda2 brw------- 1 root disk 22, 0 Aug 20 12:23 /dev/hdc brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Aug 20 12:23 /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Aug 20 12:23 /dev/sda1 It is strange indeed. Alfred