Re: PATA-disk named sda

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Jul 06 2007 - 06:12:46 EST


On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:21:32 +0200
Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

General. SATA and now PATA drives map onto the /dev/sd range as do SCSI,
USB etc
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