On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:18:57AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Real SCSI for a developer, for a user it's USB. For a user it's a "disk" no matter what cable type (SCSI, SATA, USB, Firewire...) is used for connecting it to the computer. You can even connect the very same disk to the machine using either SATA/PATA, USB or Firewire cables depending on the enclosure, so making the naming of SATA/PATA/USB/etc. disks different is much more confusing. AFAIR long ago Linus said he'd like just one major number (and thus only one naming scheme) for every disk in the system; with /dev/sd* we're now getting there. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html