Plextor PX-716A DVD burner and xine (details)

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

Raymond Lillard (rlillard) wrote:

>> "Christopher J. Bottaro" wrote:
>> I have the exact same problem on my Dell Inspiron 6000:
> 
> Yes, but do you also have the 82801FBM chip?
> 
> Execute "lspci -v -v".  Please look for the line like this:
> 
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev
> 03) (prog-if 80 [Master])

Yup...

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
(prog-if 80 [Master])

I have some (newbie) questions.  I thought my CD/DVD drive was a normal PATA
drive.  Why does it show up as /dev/hdx instead of /dev/sdx like my SATA
hard drive?  I thought IDE described PATA devices only?

Thanks for the info.