Mini rant: sda vs hda

Michael Hipp Michael
Sat Jul 28 09:19:20 PDT 2007


Just installed my first copy of Ubuntu "Feisty", previous work had all 
been in "Dapper" or older. Kernel = 2.6.20.something.

Why on earth are all my ancient PATA IDE drives now referred to as 
/dev/sda ?

Who should I blame for this silliness? Shuttleworth or Torvalds?

Michael



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