hd vs sd

[Joseph Sinclair]

Originally sd was for scsi drive and hd was for hard drive; most everything is handled by the serial attach subsystem these days, so sd now is more accurately serial device, and hd remains used by PATA primarily for historical reasons.

On 01/02/2012 04:50 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> but from my reading (and experience) it also includes USB devices.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> S is for SCSI. Most everything was put there.
>> On Jan 2, 2012 4:36 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I was wondering. Why do they call ata devices /dev/hdx and everything
>>> else /dev/sdx (where x = the drive number)?
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