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From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@×××××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:16:13
Message-Id: CAPi0psvtcWe8ak-H0ULnXSJxXHAm6k1+ejF-PpDMeYX7qJCskQ@mail.gmail.com
1 Hello,
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3 Who or what decides to name a hard drive /dev/sda vs /dev/sdb?
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5 How does it decide what order to enumerate the drives on my computer?
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7 When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"?
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9 Thank you,
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11 Chris

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Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc Fast Turtle <fturtle@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>