On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 05:31:48PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > ChadDavis wrote: >> After a new lenny installation on a new motherboard, my PATA drive came >> up as 'sdb'. I expected hda. I don't really care, but it does lead me >> to wonder how these names get doled out by the system. Can someone >> explain, or refer me to a good explanation, of how hardware is >> discovered and named.
libata unifies access to disks (pata and sata) and is bound into a scsi subsystem, so all the device names become scsi device names. > > > This is a good question, and I second the question. I installed kubuntu > on a VMware Workstation VM, and even though VMware was emulating an IDE > disk, during installation, the "hard disk" was named 'sda'. > > Now, I know that VMware is different from bare metal, and kubuntu is > different from Debian, but the question remains. > > I assume it has to do with kernel modules and hardware detection and > other esoterica, but a good, concise explanation would be welcomed. device name is just a name. creating is done by udevd daemon on modern systems. they are bound into kernel by major/minor number associated with the given device name(ls -l /dev/*). mk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
