From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762831AbXGFJOR (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 05:14:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755829AbXGFJOH (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 05:14:07 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.235]:52770 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756414AbXGFJOG (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 05:14:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=eS2GUM1ld8nmfPkVMyORxYwcsx20YKvhZMXkD0nIlNwhG5ywI4/46MRdNL8lK6wBwf2goUKkj0boMBLRE+5PhhPlEO5wtze2Jp1Syz8SnucWZQ9VqgkUfygpiL14RsRHdcaVvTlQIKNBJ7Q3DAIPstQXs4FHxDk0M+Vc2QKM24o= From: Suren Karapetyan To: Christoph Pleger Subject: Re: PATA-disk named sda Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 14:13:42 +0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070706102132.14fbc600.Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de> In-Reply-To: <20070706102132.14fbc600.Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707061413.53182.surenkarapetyan@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 06 July 2007 13:21:32 Christoph Pleger 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? > > Regards > Christoph > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ In recent kernels both PATA and SATA (SCSI too) drives are handled by libata library. It calls all the drives sd* . More info: http://linux-ata.org/