[H-GEN] altering disk partitions

[James Lever]

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According to alex_del at bigpond.net.au (on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:19:37AM +1000):
> IDE drives are labelled hda, hdb etc. SCSI devices and CD drives use 
> sda etc. What is md0? what is ad0s?

hd == hard disk
sd == scsi disk

md == meta disk
ad == atapi disk (atapi is the ide bus)

> Are these alias names given to hd's and sd's by the sys admin? 

hd and sd are traditional as back then there was only one interface of
each type at a guess.

cheers,
James

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