/dev/sda and /dev/hda

[Karl Larsen]

Jacques B. wrote:
> On 10/23/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>>     As I have been working with 2 hard drives I have discovered for
>> certain that both hard drives change to /dev/sda when a partition on
>> them is booted. It happens that one is found at /dev/sdf and the other
>> is found at /dev/sdb. This leads to confusion and in my case I am not
>> sure what to think.
>>
>>     Is this changing the disk drives a feature or is it a bug? If not a
>> feature I will write a bug soon.
>>
>>     I understand the /dev/hda stays the first hard drive.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>         Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>     
>
> Although I haven't upgraded to F7 yet I understand from a previous
> posting that F7 now uses a different device driver (?) for hard drives
> so that IDE/SATA drives are /dev/sd? and USB/Firewire is something
> else now (I forget off hand).  You don't see /dev/hd? in F7 from what
> I understood.
>
> See http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-Kernel.html
> for more info on that.
>
> Jacques B.
>
>   
    All the page you reference does is tell us that /dev/sdx will be used.



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