On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Ken Teh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting confused with the sda/hda naming conventions. I thought all > SATA disks were sd devices. They were a while back but apparently, not > anymore. And, I can't seem to make any sense of when an sda is an hda. > I'm currently installing a system with a SATA system disk that has a IDE > CDROM. A systemrescuecd (Gentoo based kernel) identifies the disk as an > sda. But the 5.2 installer says it's an hda. There's a single IDE > connector on the MB on which hangs a CDROM drive. Apparently, it's not an > hda. What is it? An sda? >
Hmmm I have never seen that... but I have only worked with a short list of SATA controllers. What kind of controller is it? -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
