Re: dev

[Nitin Kumar Gupta <nitin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

    he is actually referring to the suffix "a" and "0"
    The hard disks are hda, hdb, hdc, ...
    but floppies are   fd0, fd1, ....

    why are numbers used for floppies and alphabets for hds.

Regards
Nitin


On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Kousik Nandy wrote:

> "Sarcar, Shourya (MED)" arranged electrons thus:
>  
> > why is it that we have /dev/fd0 and /dev/hda ? 
> > [ i mean not /dev/fda or /dev/hd0 ]
> > 
> > Does this have any historical reasons ?
> 
> 
> Would you buy the idea that `fd' is floppy disk and `hd' refers to
> hard disk ?
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Kousik
> 
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