Re: PATA-disk named sda

[Suren Karapetyan]

On Friday 06 July 2007 13:21:32 Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the newest Ubuntu Release, my PATA-disk is called sda instead of hda.
> Is that a general feature in newer kernel versions or is it a special
> feature in Ubuntu?
>
> Regards
>   Christoph
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In recent kernels both PATA and SATA (SCSI too) drives are handled by libata 
library. It calls all the drives sd* . 
More info: http://linux-ata.org/
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