Talk:/dev/hda

Expert needed

I've removed the {{expert}} tag from this page; much of this information is not extremely difficult to find and does not require an expert per se. The article is a stub, and by definition could use attention, but I do not see much reason as to why an expert is required. (Gah, forgot to sign.) Link ^(t•c•m) 16:01, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Well of course it needs an expert. Any computer-related article about an operating system other than Microsoft Windows is only understandable by people who have written PhD theses about computer science. JIP | Talk 18:49, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Renaming?

It seems that hdx names have been changed in the latest kernel. Hard drives now seem to be solely sdx and CD drives have been renamed scdx. I don't have personal experience with the latest kernel, but the article should note that it's been changed, if it has been changed. BioTube 20:47, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I've heard something like that too. I don't know for sure personally, since I'm running 2.6.20 rather than 2.6.21, but if it's true, it should, of course, be stated. Still, the article does not need to be renamed; /dev/hda still exists in other Unices, as well as having historic value in Linux. --Link ^(t•c•m) 04:19, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Most PATA drivers in the Linux kernel have now been converted over to using libata, originally developed to support SATA. IIRC, this was always intended. The result is that plain old IDE/PATA systems now appear to have one or more SCSI interfaces (one per channel?) and SCSI disks. The advantage is that libata is (supposedly) much better written compared to the old IDE code and has good support for error handling, although that still needs much work for both SATA and PATA. --Imroy 15:12, 2 October 2007 (UTC)