Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161073AbWHJGVV (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:21:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161072AbWHJGVV (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:21:21 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:460 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161067AbWHJGVU (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:21:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:19:08 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Alan Cox cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: /dev/sd* In-Reply-To: <1155174291.18272.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809212124.GC3691@stusta.de> <1155160903.5729.263.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809221857.GG3691@stusta.de> <1155174291.18272.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 20 >> And things become even more confusing considering that the drive might >> show up as /dev/sda or /dev/uba depending on the driver used. > >Windows people seem to cope ok with C: being IDE and E: being SCSI ;) You can't compare it like that. Actually, drive letters are more like bind mounts from "device names" to drive letters. In fact, net drives are not IDE or SCSI or USB at all, yet they have a drive letter. So the real CDROM for example is, IIRC, sth. like \\Device\Cdrom0 (it's not a network path even if it looks like). Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/