[Tfug] sda or hda?

[Jeffry Johnston]

I think they do some SCSI emulation thing now, so everybody is /dev/sd*

Jeff

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Eric Gearhart <eric at nixwizard.net> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Eric
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