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Squallcw

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Registered: 2008-05-26

Posts: 10

Why are my ide drives known as "sd"-Drive?

Hello,

on Slackware and on a few other distributions, my ide hard drives are known as sda, sdb etc., but I don't have SATA or SCSI drives. I read, this is because the ide drivers are included in the SATA drivers, is this correct?
But why I access on my second hd (sdb)? I want to install there...

What can I do now?
Thanks

ThomasAdam

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From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2005-10-26

Posts: 149

Re: Why are my ide drives known as "sd"-Drive?

Hello,

on Slackware and on a few other distributions, my ide hard drives are known as sda, sdb etc., but I don't have SATA or SCSI drives. I read, this is because the ide drivers are included in the SATA drivers, is this correct?
But why I access on my second hd (sdb)? I want to install there...

What can I do now?
Thanks

I am not sure what you're asking -- to explain why you're seeing your IDE drives show up as /dev/sd? is due to the fact that some recent motherboards will default to using libata in the kernel rather than legacy IDE.  But you're asking what question, exactly?

-- Thomas Adam

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Why are my ide drives known as "sd"-Drive?

Just about all the IDE drivers were rewritten and ported over to a brand new architecture, libATA... and libATA just happens to use sd instead of hd.

Eventually all the distros will have sd as the main and hd will be a thing of the past (unless you use the legacy drivers as they're still included).

Last edited by iphitus (2008-06-15 13:14:26)