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