FastTrack 133 "Lite" or why there is no /dev/hda

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 02:40:22PM +0100, Martin Mewes wrote:
> Fedore-Kernels, but what I wonder about is if Windows XP resides on 
> hda and hdb why Fedora (as well as SuSE, RedHat, Knoppix, Debian ...) 
> is starting to acutally see the harddisks not with hda but hde?

hda/b and hdc/d are reserved for the legacy mode IDE ports. If your 
system is set up with no legacy IDE ports then the hda-d ports will never
be used.

Alan