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On Saturday 24 January 2009 12:35, Rob Beard wrote: > 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 I think it was thought logical to move all 'hard' drives under sd (Scsi Disks) so you don't have to look in too many places for them. Always amuses me when I see 15 year old hard drives pretending to be scsi. First few times you install a system and it says something about configuring a Scsi drive when you know you haven't got one can make you jump. Mind you some new installs (*Ubuntu etc) don't even let on which is even more confusing when things go wrong - wot no hda... I havent backed up helppppppp! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html