Names of Windows partitions

Jeremy Huntwork jhuntwork at lightcubesolutions.com
Tue Jun 17 21:13:06 UTC 2008


On Jun 17, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> For a reason which I certainly was once aware of, Ubuntu labels both
> (P)ATA and SATA/SCSI devices as sdx.

Indeed, it seems you and David are correct, my apologies. Just booting  
up the 8.04 CD in a virtual machine which uses a generic IDE device  
for the drive, I see it being brought up as sda where it would  
certainly be hda on another (perhaps older) system.

Thanks for the correction.

Jeremy Huntwork
LightCube Solutions, LLC
www.lightcubesolutions.com




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