public inbox for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: staticsafe <me@staticsafe.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 12:45:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130607164529.GA16414@uriel.asininetech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPi0pstuaDq5qdtM9ea48P3Bo2k0r=XVQW2XuKx06B6z3vUemg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:32:41AM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> >> When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"?
> >
> > That's done by 'udev' based on what BIOS tells it.
> 
> Hi Philip,
> 
> Is this a true statement:
> 
> Some people do not use udev.  These people still have a /dev/sda.
> Therefore something other than udev is giving drives the name
> "/dev/sda".
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Chris
> 
Yes, the kernel does this.
-- 
staticsafe
O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb
Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-07 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-07  4:16 [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc Chris Stankevitz
2013-06-07  5:31 ` Fast Turtle
2013-06-07  9:43 ` Philip Webb
2013-06-07 16:32   ` Chris Stankevitz
2013-06-07 16:45     ` staticsafe [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-06-07  5:58 Thomas Mueller

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20130607164529.GA16414@uriel.asininetech.com \
    --to=me@staticsafe.ca \
    --cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox