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SubjectRe: What still uses the block layer?
> 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

Alan
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