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> Who or what decides to name a hard drive /dev/sda vs /dev/sdb? |
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> How does it decide what order to enumerate the drives on my computer? |
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> When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"? |
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> Thank you, |
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> Chris |
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I believe it depends on how the drives are connected. |
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/dev/sda would be the default boot drive, though modern computers can be configured to boot from any drive recognized by the BIOS or UEFI. |
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Older versions of the Linux kernel named IDE/ATA hard drives, and CD/DVD drives too, as /dev/hda, /dev/hdb and so on. |
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Tom |
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