Names of Windows partitions

[Derek Broughton]

Peter Garrett wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:58:22PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> 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 :-)
> 
> 7.04 ... mists of prehistory... Does this make 6.06 some time in
> the early stages of the Big Bang?
> 
No, I've just reached that time in life where ....  I forget
-- 
derek
Memory's the second thing to go.
I forget what's first.