[Tfug] sda or hda?

[Eric Gearhart]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:16 AM, erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
> OK,
>        I'm one of those guys that builds the kernel when I install a new
> system. This time. I'm contending with 2.6.27-r7.
>        It seems that kernels now understand only the designation of
> /dev/sda[x] in an fstab file when once they did not.
>        Traditionally, hda,hdb,... was the designation for a hard drive
> (IDE ATA, etc) were sda,sdb,... was supposed to represent a SCSI drive.
>        Are we just using sda[x],sdb[x],...,etc nowadays?

Are you using a SATA controller? We need more info... 'lspci -v' would help...

http://kerneltrap.org/node/3495 has a discussion about hda versus sda

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Eric
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