This problem affects Jaunty as well. Will *not* be trying Karmic anytime soon. Like others, the system in question here is an IDE/ATAPI device (in my case, a Memorex Lightscribe-capable DVD burner) and hdparm just won't talk to it because of this /dev/srX business.
Note that this is not something that is being forced by the kernel; on the other machine at my house, a generic kernel is in use (rather than the Ubuntu-supplied one), and it treats IDE devices as /dev/hdX like it *should*.
This problem affects Jaunty as well. Will *not* be trying Karmic anytime soon. Like others, the system in question here is an IDE/ATAPI device (in my case, a Memorex Lightscribe-capable DVD burner) and hdparm just won't talk to it because of this /dev/srX business.
Note that this is not something that is being forced by the kernel; on the other machine at my house, a generic kernel is in use (rather than the Ubuntu-supplied one), and it treats IDE devices as /dev/hdX like it *should*.