renaming /dev/hda to ./dev/sda
Jason L Tibbitts III
tibbs at math.uh.edu
Tue Dec 19 20:10:52 UTC 2006
>>>>> "PB" == Per Bothner <per at bothner.com> writes:
PB> So why we are we renaming /dev/hdX to the much-less-natural
PB> /dev/sdX in the first place?
Well, "we" I suppose is the kernel folks; this isn't exactly a Fedora
decision and it isn't really new.
libata uses at least the upper layers of the SCSI subsystem, so the
drives show up as SCSI devices: "sd". Not much different from the USB
storage system. I guess you could think of "sd" an acronym for
Storage Device or something.
- J<
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