Disk controller detection order

Klaus Steden klaus.steden at thomson.net
Mon Aug 4 19:00:22 UTC 2008


Hello Chris,

Unless the Linux kernel's disk device handling code has changed recently,
IDE/ATA drives are still hd[a-z]; sd[a-z] are for SCSI, FC, SATA, iSCSI,
etc. disks.

cheers,
Klaus

On 8/4/08 8:51 AM, "Christopher Mocock" <chris at wavestore.com>did etch on
stone tablets:

> Terry Black wrote:
>> IDE drives should be hda not sda?
>> Terry
> 
> I should have mentioned I'm using Fedora 9 and I believe all devices are
> sda onwards, are they not?
> 




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