Difference between IDE and SCSI ??

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Sun Feb 3 14:59:41 UTC 2008


Bob Kinney wrote:

> I can understand your confusion, because Fedora has begun labeling *all*
> internal storage devices as "sd", as in "SCSI device", whether or not it
> actually is on a SCSI or IDE chain.

Surely it is more than just labelling.
Fedora (and Linux generally, to a lesser extent)
now uses SCSI emulation to talk to IDE disks.

Incidentally, your posting was difficult to follow.
You seemed to be replying to yourself.

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