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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.

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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.

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