Hi Guys!
This morning, while doing research for my exam-prep course, I found out
something that I had never before noticed. That is, that on Ubuntu
systems, old-fashioned PATA hard drives are designated as "/dev/sd*"
rather than "/dev/hd*". I did a Google search, and found that that's
because Ubuntu uses the libATA library for mounting drives.
I had never before noticed this, since most of my Ubuntu machines run
either SATA or SCSI drives. (Only a couple of old P-III's have Ubuntu
loaded on PATA drives, and I had never before bothered to look in their
"/dev" directories.)
I know that the LPI exam traditionally tests on Red Hat and Debian,
which still use the "/dev/hd*" designations. But, given the popularity
of Ubuntu for desktop use, exam candidates who are still running older
machines are bound to be confused about why that is. Also, given the
popularity of Ubuntu, I believe that this would be something important
for exam candidates to know.
So, I'm wondering. . .
Will there be anything about the Ubuntu way of designating PATA hard
drives on the exam?
Ciao,
Donnie Tevault
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