using various IDE or SCSI hard drive interfaces with CentOS Linux questions

[roberth at abbacomm.net (Robert Hanson)]

thank you Scot, Bryan, Preston and others that will respond,

i asked because i am going through a new hardware cycle...

my last hardware cycle was between the 1.2.13 and 2.0.X linux kernel stages
believe it or not... and back then... well, i always hand rolled a kernel
optimized to the bare bones servers i would take and hand build.

i guess that i built some solid "forward looking" units as most did not need
to be replaced for many years... typically 5 or more and many were simply
just upgraded in processor or DRAM and possibly hard drive space etc.

Bryan, i noticed and noted the SATA /dev/sda etc type device assignment
issues.

ummmmm will SATA always have SCSI type device assignment or has/will a new
assignment be created?

i imagine that it would go so an ATA type device assignment eventually
wouldnt it?

bottom line is, just about every type of hard drive storage interface driver
(as well as any other relevant driver types) is/are included in the CentOS
linux distribution?

thanks

 - rh

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Robert Hanson
Abba Communications
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