Re: Linux hard drive sequence ( Drive letter assignments )

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 07/04/05 

Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 12:14:44 -0400

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:20:07 -0400, David D.
  <daviddiamond.remove-if-not-spam@comcast.net> wrote:
> Does Linux enumerate the hard drives in a different sequence than Windows?
>
Yes, as you have seen.

> If I place a hard drive on my mobo's main primary IDE channel, it shows up
> as "C:" in Windows 2000 (the first hard drive), but as "/hde" in Linux.
>
Windows assigns letters to partitions, and only partitions where it
finds a FAT or NTFS filesystem.

> To get it to show up as "/hda", I need to place it on my mobo's primary IDE
> RAID channel (which is an on-board HighPoint).
>
Is that a problem? If your BIOS can boot the drive, does it matter what
it is called? 

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