Donald A. Tevault wrote: > 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.
That's true only for some parallel ATA drives, the ones supported by libata. So for some machine you will still find /dev/hd* depending on the chipset. But I agree that libata and such kind of problems should be addressed. Simone -- Simone Piccardi Truelite Srl [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email/jabber) Via Monferrato, 6 Tel. +39-347-1032433 50142 Firenze http://www.truelite.it Tel. +39-055-7879597 Fax. +39-055-7333336 _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
