2 hard disks

[Felix Miata]

On 2007/12/03 14:53 (GMT-0500) Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com
apparently typed:

> Would you mind clearing something up for me.  I thought the HDx was for
> IDE drives while the SDx was for the SCSI drives, not primary and
> secondary.  And if I am correct, I have this machine I am building where
> the drive is SATA and it is recognized as my SD0 drive.

This subject is a glaring omission from the release notes
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710

Mandriva 2008 release notes don't omit the issue
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Notes#Modular_IDE_drivers_and_new_libata_stack

SUSE 10.3 also covers it
http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html#09

In any event, SATA drives under Linux have always been treated as if they
were SCSI devices, AFAIK.

On motherboards with both PATA and SATA drive controllers, there may be
reference to primary and secondary as between PATA & SATA.
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