On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Ken Teh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm getting confused with the sda/hda naming conventions.  I thought all
> SATA disks were sd devices.  They were a while back but apparently, not
> anymore.  And, I can't seem to make any sense of when an sda is an hda.
> I'm currently installing a system with a SATA system disk that has a IDE
> CDROM.  A systemrescuecd (Gentoo based kernel) identifies the disk as an
> sda.  But the 5.2 installer says it's an hda.  There's a single IDE
> connector on the MB on which hangs a CDROM drive.  Apparently, it's not an
> hda.  What is it?  An sda?
>

Hmmm I have never seen that... but I have only worked with a short
list of SATA controllers. What kind of controller is it?


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