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Julian Hall wrote: > > In /dev there are loads of hdaNs so I'll just try and trawl through > and see if any of them work out. Don't assume it is /dev/hda, maybe /dev/hdc or /dev/sda depends on your hardware. During the boot process the kernel normally see the disks, and logs how it will refer to them. In the output of "dmesg" I have; Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: HL-DT-ST CD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4480B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: OnStream DI-30, ATAPI TAPE drive So I know my DVD is /dev/hdc and my tape drive /dev/hdd The SCSI driver prints out slightly less helpful, but relatively obvious messages suggesting I have an 80GB disk called /dev/sda i.e. scsi0: scanning scsi channel 0 for logical drives. Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD 0 RAID1 76G Rev: 6.62 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Followed a bit later by; SCSI device sda: 156217344 512-byte hdwr sectors (79983 MB) sda: asking for cache data failed sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 156217344 512-byte hdwr sectors (79983 MB) sda: asking for cache data failed sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > In these days of SCSI, SATA, and Flash disks, I don't even try and remember what is what. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html