Marc Singer writes: > At http://www.pick.ucam.org/~mcv21/hurd.html, the author states: > > > First - Understand Hurd partition names > > Hurd uses different partition names to Linux, and this can be > confusing. IDE hard disks are numbered in order, beginning from > hd0. Note that the second IDE drive will always be hd1, regardless of > whether it is a slave or a second master. SCSI drives are also > numbered in the same way, in absolute order (so not necessarily the > drive ID): they will always be sd0, sd1, and so on regardless of > whether the two drives are SCSI id 4 and 5 or whatever. > > This is, in fact, not the case. The first physical disk on my machine > is numbered similarly as it is on Linux, according to the controller > and the master/slave status of that device. My only IDE drive is a > master on the second controller and it is hd2.
Do SCSI drives actually get named as documented? My last experience with a system that handled drive-names that way was MS-DOS, and it was quite bothersome to have the DOS drive-letters reshuffle after adding or removing a drive....
