Re: Hard drive detection

[Chris Jones]

On Fri, 04 May 2012 09:13:51 -0400
Mark Lord <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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/
> 
> 

Thanks Mark. That's exactly what I was looking for. And are both PATA
and SATA internal drives both located in drivers/ata?


Regards

Chris Jones
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