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

[Martin Mewes]

Hi Alan,

Am Sonntag, 21. März 2004 14:48 schrieb 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.

Thanks for this info which leads to the next question.

In this scenario: Is it possible to quicken the boot-process so that 
checking for hd/a-d is skipped?

bis dahin/kind regards

Martin Mewes

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