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Re: [LUG] Courses in my area...

 

Quoting Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 23/01/2009 19:17, Paul Sutton wrote:
>>
>> hmm i have normal ide and for some reason my drives are the harddisk
>> partitions are /sda sda1 sda2
>>
>> items such as flash disks,are sdb
>>
>> This is using ubuntu 8.10,  i guess most new comptuers do use sata.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>  From what I understand it's a Kernel 2.6.x thing.  Kernel 2.4.x on IP
> Cop still uses /dev/hdX for IDE drives and /dev/sdX for SCSI, SATA and
> USB devices.
>
> Personally now I've got used to it, I prefer /dev/sdX

For some reason, Debian Etch on one of my servers still shows HDA and  
SDA instead of all as SDA, doesn't really bother me, but it gets a bit  
irritating when moving scripts between servers...

M.
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