On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Sam Clemens
No. Drivers are assigned and used on a disk by disk basis, not on a system-wide basis.
I have a tower which has had as many as 5 different types of disks in it.
Single ended SCSI CD Low Voltage Differential SCSI Hard disks ATAPI CD/DVD IDE hard disks SATA hard disks.
Every disk performed exactly as you would expect it to do so.
My Dell Precision 610 has an 80MB/s 9GB SCSI, a SATA 400GB, 2 DVD-RWs on IDE, and USB storage and network storage attached with no issues as well. I had a PATA drive in at for a while as well. Drive orders can get confused with SCSI and SATA because they use the same sd*, and they are usually assigned by the order that they are installed on the PCI bus. So, if you are using a SCSI card in PCI2 and add a SATA in PCI1, the SATA drive can become sda and push the SCSI drive to sdb. that can cause kernel panics during boot if the SCSI drive was supposed to be sda and had been bumped. I wish they had used a different drive type for SATA, even tho it's basically like SCSI anyway. Oh well. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org