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[Jethro Carr]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:47 -0800, Brent Wood wrote:
> > "But wait....." Taking all/most of the proffered advice I think I am on 
> > to it. Yes, Jethro, both drives are IDE on the same controller. Tried an 
> > experimental install of Ubuntu 7.04 last night. _4 hours_ of beige 
> > screen and drive thrashing later I aborted. Flashed up Puppy and 
> > couldn't find any reference to hda1, which by the presence of an hdb1 
> > implied that the Pup at least had an idea there was an hda. 
> 
> Not necessarily, the primary slave will be hdb, irrespective of whether primary
> master (hda) exists or not. sd<a...> drives are generally SCSI or SATA drives.
> Although I have seen Fedora call a PATA (IDE) drive sda. 

As a side note about this....

A while back a new IDE system was added to the Linux kernel (think it
first appeared in 2.6.19) called libata, which is designed as a
successor to the previous IDE drives.

One of the changes, is that devices using these new drivers now have the
name of sdX instead of hdX.

So expect to see many more distributions naming IDE drives sdX in the
near future. :-)


-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog

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