Names of Windows partitions

[debian]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 15:51 -0400, David Curtis wrote:
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> Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> > On Jun 17, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Graham Watkins wrote:
> >> sudo cat /etc/fstab from the command line will give the partition
> >> information. If you are using Ubuntu you'll probably find that they're
> >> likely to begin with sd..
> > 
> > This will only work if Ubuntu has automatically discovered the Windows  
> > partition and created an entry for it, since /etc/fstab is a list of  
> > partitions to mount at startup. By the sounds of it, this didn't  
> > happen since Rick is looking to auto mount the partition at startup.
> > 
> > Also, the fact that he's using Ubuntu has nothing to do with whether  
> > the drive will begin with 'sd' or 'hd'. 'hd' is for ATA drives  
> > (usually IDE), while 'sd' is for SCSI disks, SATA drives and USB  
> > storage disks.
> > 
> 
> Actually since 7.10 I believe all drives including IDE are all called sdxx.
> 
> A 'dmesg|grep hd' for Ubuntu 7.04 will tell you what your drives are.
> A 'dmesg|grep sd' for Ubuntu 7.10 and up. (And 7.04 and lower if your
> drives are SCSI.) Just try them both, no harm.
> 
Not on all of them. I run an Emachines (its only 3 years old) and it
still detects the hard drives as /dev/hd* both on Gutsy and Hardy. My
other computers, however, are a totally different story though.

Ubuntu 7.04+ always saw my hard disk as /dev/sd* on my other machine
(which is 4 years old) and ubuntu 8.04 sees my hard disk on my laptop
as /dev/sd*

i guess it just depends on how linux sees your IDE disk controller

--cj
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> Dave
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