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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. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- 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