Re: Which drive does ata7 correspond to?



Dennison.Williams@xxxxxxxxx staggered into the Black Sun and said:
On May 22, 9:44 am, Dances With Crows <danceswithcr...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Mark T.B. Carroll staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Didn't this change between some 2.6 kernel versions from hd* to sd*?
Maybe there were even both old and new SATA drivers available in
The "SATA looks like IDE" modules have been deprecated for years.
The OP didn't say which version of which distro he was using, but if
he's got some SATA disks that look like SCSI, then *all* of his SATA
disks should look like SCSI.
yeah this is a much older kernel that has not been upgraded in a
while: 2.6.5. I ended up finding the drive cause it failed ;( /dev/
sdg (which ata7 refering to the 7th drive letter I guess)

ata0 should be the first ATA device found, but apparently libata starts
counting from 1 instead of 0. This is different from the old way of
doing things, but it might confuse fewer n00bs.

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