Bob Kinney wrote: > I can understand your confusion, because Fedora has begun labeling *all* > internal storage devices as "sd", as in "SCSI device", whether or not it > actually is on a SCSI or IDE chain. Surely it is more than just labelling. Fedora (and Linux generally, to a lesser extent) now uses SCSI emulation to talk to IDE disks. Incidentally, your posting was difficult to follow. You seemed to be replying to yourself. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland