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

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

2008/3/4, Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>:
> 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.
>
>  cjs
It seems that they share the *same* code.
I've just looked at 2.6.9-42 kernel drivers/usb/storage Makefile and
it turned out that usb-storage was linked back to drivers/scsi.

# libata is not included with RHEL 4 ( default installation )




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