On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 02:40:22PM +0100, Martin Mewes wrote: > Fedore-Kernels, but what I wonder about is if Windows XP resides on > hda and hdb why Fedora (as well as SuSE, RedHat, Knoppix, Debian ...) > is starting to acutally see the harddisks not with hda but hde? hda/b and hdc/d are reserved for the legacy mode IDE ports. If your system is set up with no legacy IDE ports then the hda-d ports will never be used. Alan