I got scsi drives??

Stephen Allewell stephen at mirramar.fsnet.co.uk
Sun Apr 29 13:32:27 UTC 2007


When I was using the Feisty Beta I noticed this change to the /dev/sd 
format.  When I did a fresh install with the Feisty release they have 
gone back to the /dev/hd format for all three of my internal drives, all 
PATA.

Steve

Andrew Jarrett wrote:
> Stew,
> 
> Yes, this is correct.  As of Feisty I believe that most (if not all) IDE 
> drives will be labeled as SCSI drives.  I am not sure why this happened 
> (guess it makes for easier management since IDE is fading as a current 
> technology).
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On 4/28/07, *Stew Schneider* <stew.schneider at gmail.com 
> <mailto:stew.schneider at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I just upgraded to Feisty. I was playing with a script and needed to
>     find my external HD. I issued a df, since that would show all my drives.
>     To my surprise, I got:
> 
>     stewart at stewart:~$ df
>     Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>     /dev/sda1             36985736   4032800  31074136  12% /
>     varrun                  253576       220    253356   1% /var/run
>     varlock                 253576         0    253576   0% /var/lock
>     procbususb              253576       116    253460   1% /proc/bus/usb
>     udev                    253576       116    253460   1% /dev
>     devshm                  253576         0    253576   0% /dev/shm
>     lrm                     253576     33788    219788  14%
>     /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/volatile
>     /dev/sda3             41286828  11276864  27912680  29% /home
>     /dev/sda4             74082012    184480  70134308   1% /opt
>     stewart at stewart:~$
> 
>     I understood /dev/sd to refer to scsi drives....is this right?
> 
>     stew
> 
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