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on 01/02/2011 12:22 AM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: |
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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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> |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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>> |
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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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>> |
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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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> |
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> Maybe the new disk is set to IDE mode as shipped? |
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or maybe the controller of the second disk is set to IDE in BIOS ... |
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