Re: Hard drive detection

[Mark Lord]

On 12-05-04 04:56 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
> What section of the kernel detects internal hard drives upon boot?

That depends upon how the drive is connected.
But generally speaking, the device driver for the drive-controller
will probe and find any attached drives.

So for modern kernels, on systems with SATA drives,
the code is in linux/drivers/ata/

Cheers
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