on 01/02/2011 12:22 AM Alan McKinnon wrote the following:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:38 on Saturday 01 January 2011, Daniel D
> Jones did opine thusly:
>
>> This is more of a curiosity question than a problem. I just added a new
>> diskdrive to my system. It's the same model as one I already have
>> installed. lshw shows the following for the two disks:
>>
>> *-disk:2
>> description: ATA Disk
>> product: ST31000528AS
>> vendor: Seagate
>> physical id: 0.0.0
>> bus info: s...@2:0.0.0
>> logical name: /dev/sdc
>> version: CC37
>> serial: 9VP21EZB
>> size: 931GiB (1TB)
>> capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
>> configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=2adeb97b
>>
>>
>> *-disk
>> description: ATA Disk
>> product: ST31000528AS
>> vendor: Seagate
>> physical id: 0
>> bus info: i...@1.0
>> logical name: /dev/hdc
>> version: CC3E
>> serial: 9VP9G4VW
>> size: 931GiB (1TB)
>> capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm partitioned
>> partitioned:dos
>> configuration: signature=1e89b64b smart=on
>>
>>
>> These are both SATA disks. Why is the first one showing up as /dev/sdc and
>> the second as /dev/hdc? I thought all SATA disks would show up as sd* and
>> EIDE disks showed up as hd*.
>>
>> I note that the bus info is different - one showing the scsi bus and one
>> the ide bus. Both devices are plugged into a row of SATA ports on my
>> mobo.
>
> Maybe the new disk is set to IDE mode as shipped?
>
or maybe the controller of the second disk is set to IDE in BIOS ...
