Vivek J. Patankar wrote: > The `hdX` nomenclature no longer exists for disk drives. All fixed disks > are now named `sdX`. AFAIR, this changed with Fedora 7. The hdx nomenclature still exists. If you have PATA disks. All Sata or SCSI disks were named as sdx. This nomenclature existed ever since I have known linux, maybe around 1999! :) Regards Aditya