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[ILUG] drive naming schemes

[ILUG] drive naming schemes

Wesley Darlington wesley at blackstar.co.uk
Fri Mar 24 14:03:20 GMT 2000


Hi,

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:52:53PM +0000, John Mc Donald wrote:
> If I connect two drives to a a Linux machine one on the primary
> master and one on the secondary master. Will they be named
> hda and hdb, or hda and hdc i.e does the connector used matter
> or is it just the ordering? (apologies if this seems like (or is)  a
> stupid
> question :)

They'd probably be called hda and hdc. hdb and hdd would be the
primary and secondary slaves.

That's what happens on my IDE boxes anyhow.

Wesley.




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