Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:49:25 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: What still uses the block layer? |
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> but in any case, historicly IDE (PATA) and SATA drives have been handled > differently, IDE drives have had fixed device names based on how they are > connected, SATA devices have had 'order found' device names from the SCSI
Nope.
Historically it depended whether you had a PATA controller with SATA bridge, a SATA controller with SATA drives, a PATA controller with PATA drives or a SATA controller with PATA bridge.
Often the bridges are on the card or mainboard. So some VIA systems would historically use /dev/hda for the first SATA device.
Even more fun is stuff like Jmicron where the BIOS settings determined whether PATA or SATA was /dev/hda
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