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

["emiddleton@example.com" <emiddleton@example.com>]

Curt Sampson wrote:
> On 2008-03-04 11:30 +0900 (Tue), Nguyen Vu Hung wrote:
>
>   
> > Both has same naming convention /dev/sd[a-z] while IDE disks will be
> > /dev/hd[a-z].
> > How the names come?
> >     
>
> Historical reasons, basically. The /dev/hd* (IDE and older variations)
> devices and /dev/sd* (SCSI) devices used to have quite different
> drivers. They now share a lot of code, but not device names.
>   

Unless you are using libata, in which case everything uses the /dev/sd? 
devices.  This can cause problems if you move from an older pata driver 
to the libata ones because you need to update your device files in 
/etc/fstab or use labels instead of device files as identifiers.

Edward