Re: [tlug] Dual booting LINUX from an external USB-connected drive

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2008-03-04 11:30 +0900 (Tue), Nguyen Vu Hung wrote:

> Both has same naming convention /dev/sd[a-z] while IDE disks will be
> /dev/hd[a-z].
> How the names come?

Historical reasons, basically. The /dev/hd* (IDE and older variations)
devices and /dev/sd* (SCSI) devices used to have quite different
drivers. They now share a lot of code, but not device names.

cjs
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