On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:44:20AM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: | Linux maps drives like this: | MSDOS Linux | ~~~~~ ~~~~~ | C: hda (master, primary controller) | D: hdb (secondary, primary controller) | E: hdc (master, secondary controller) | F: hdd (secondary, secondary controller) | (and so on) |
Close but not exactly. In MSDOS/Windows C:, D:, etc refer to partitions. This may or may not coincide with the physical drives. Also, in Linux, hda, hdb, etc refer to the entire drive rather than any single partition. Take for example a system with 2 drives on the primary conroller with 2 partitions each (all vfat). The mapping would be: C: hda1 D: hda2 E: hdb1 F: hdb2 Now suppose you have the same 2 drives, but now 2 partitions aren't vfat (say ext2 instead). C: hda1 D: hdb2 Windows doesn't label the other partitions since it doesn't know about them. | If this is what you are doing, your drives are really partition like this: | hda1=windows | hda3=/ | hda5=/home | hda6=/usr | hda4=swap In this setup, if I assume that all Linux partitions are ext2, then in MSDOS you have C: only. No other drives (for harddrive, CD comes after last HD). Linux uses different letters for different drive types. A: usually refers to /dev/fd0. SCSI drives are something like /dev/sd0 (but I don't have SCSI so I probably don't have it quite right) This is just to clear up a possible misunderstanding. HTH, -D
