Re: /dev/sd*

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Aug 17 2006 - 04:26:15 EST

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Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 10:01 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jan Engelhardt:
> (If I would have known a lot earlier about Linux I would have proposed
> "id*" for the IDE disks.)

IDE basically did not exist at the time that the hd name was chosen.

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