Re: [tlug] Dual booting LINUX from an external USB-connected drive

["Nguyen Vu Hung" <vuhung16plus+shape@example.com>]

2008/3/4, Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 00:16:34 +0900, "Kenneth M Burling Jr"
>  <burlingk@example.com> wrote:
>
>  > How much difference is there between how the bios sees a thumb drive, and
>  > a USB connected disk drive?
>
>
> In theory there is none. They both use the same SCSI-like protocol.
Both has same naming convention /dev/sd[a-z] while IDE disks will be
/dev/hd[a-z].
How the names come?

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