Names of Windows partitions

[Derek Broughton]

Jeremy Huntwork wrote:

> 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.

That is, indeed, the situation.  I believe it changed with the kernel that
came with Feisty, but it's in the mists of pre-history now :-)
-- 
derek