johnd Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 I have just noticed that Mandriva is calling my PATA drive sda instead of the traditional hda. Can anyone tell me why this is so? Thanks. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 I have just noticed that Mandriva is calling my PATA drive sda instead of the traditional hda. Can anyone tell me why this is so? Thanks. John It just does :-) The hda, hdb, etc. naming convention was used for ATA drives. SATA/PATA drives have different controllers and use different drivers AFAIK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted February 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Yes - but SATA and PATA are ATA drives. Traditionally hda is for the first parallel ATA drive and sda for the first serial ATA drive. My drive is PATA and is called sda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 It just does :-) The hda, hdb, etc. naming convention was used for ATA drives. SATA/PATA drives have different controllers and use different drivers AFAIK. ATA is just a generally used as a short name form of PATA, so it's the same thing. The use of sd devices instead of hd devices for PATA drives, has to do with the switch to the new libata kernel drivers for many PATA chipsets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Due to the libata libraries mentioned above, both SATA and IDE drives are now seen as /dev/sdx by any kernel following 2.6.20 or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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