Re: /dev/sd* — Linux Kernel

Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 10:01 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jan Engelhardt:
> (If I would have known a lot earlier about Linux I would have proposed 
> "id*" for the IDE disks.)

IDE basically did not exist at the time that the hd name was chosen. 

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References:
- Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel
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- /dev/sd*
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- Re: /dev/sd*
  - From: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
- Re: /dev/sd*
  - From: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
- Re: /dev/sd*
  - From: Gabor Gombas <[email protected]>
- Re: /dev/sd*
  - From: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
- Re: /dev/sd*
  - From: Lee Trager <[email protected]>
- Re: /dev/sd*
  - From: Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]>

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