[PLUG]Booting Problem.

[Gaurav Pant]

On Feb 19, 2008 10:16 AM, Vishal Rao <vishalrao at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2008 10:05 AM, "आदित्य (Aditya)" <laghatea at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> I have an 80gb PATA disk and I see sdX, I believe newer distro
> versions use some "libata" stack which made the change in naming...

I wonder what is the major/minor device number. IIRC  that is what
really makes the difference.

Regards
Dexter