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hda or hdc?
Name: secrets Date: February 1, 2004 at 11:32:53 Pacific OS: Linux CPU/Ram: 2.4 HT
Comment:
tell me fairly i m confused in linux 7 hdisk partations were called hda# in linux 9 they are called hdb or hdc some like that what is that change?
Name: Jake Date: February 1, 2004 at 15:28:07 Pacific
Reply:
There is no Linux 7 or 9. RedHat is one distribution of GNU/Linux, but there are many others.
ATA hard drives get their device names from how they're attached. The naming scheme doesn't change. Have you changed hardware configuration? hda is the primary master, b the slave, c the secondary master, etc.
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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave Date: February 2, 2004 at 03:51:01 Pacific
Reply:
/dev/hda = primary master IDE device /dev/hdb = primary slave IDE device /dev/hdc = secondary master IDE device /dev/hdd = secondary slave IDE device
The numbers at the end refer to the partitions: /dev/hda1 = first primary partition on primary master /dev/hdc3 = third primary partition on secondary master /dev/hdd5 = first logical partition on secondary slave
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