Re: SATA drive nomenclature

[Bas Wijnen]

Grub nomenclature is a bit different from all others AFAIK.  There's 
some explanation in the grub manual and I think in the Hurd install 
guide as well.  In short, grub uses the bios and therefore only knows 
about bios drives.  All hard drives are hd, and they are numbered by the 
bios.  So if you have (in Linux nomenclature) hda and hdc installed, 
then hda is hd0 for grub, and hdc is hd1.

Partitions are specified with a comma, and the complete device name is 
in parenthesis.  So your device is probably:
(hd0,0)
Try pressing the tab key on the grub commandline, it gives a lot of 
information (possible devices, partition types.)

Thanks,
Bas

Nathan Blythe wrote:
> So would my drive be named as an hd or an sd?  I tried all the variants 
> (hd0s1...) and no luck.  I hope it does support sata since I don't 
> really have any other options right now.
>
> At 05:38 PM 9/24/2004, pietro wrote:
>
> > Alfred M. Szmidt said:
> > >    did you install GNU/Hurd on a sata hard disk? AFAIK GNUMach doesn't
> > >    have support form them.
> > >
> > > SATA should be backwards compatible with ATA.
> >
> > so, the nomenclature is the same?
> >
> > pietro.
> >
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> > Armies, students, and some societies are programmed."
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> > "Structure
> > and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
>
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