It has been my experience that linux will "see" PATA (the older IDE 
interface) drives as /dev/hda, etc., while SATA drives are treated like 
SCSI drives, or /dev/sda, etc.  USB drives are ALSO seen as SCSI (/dev/sda).

So this sounds pretty normal to me.



On 09/15/2010 03:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Yes, it is on the list.  I think this is just a side effect of the linux
> version that is running.   More recent ones map about everything into
> /dev/sd? devices - and worse, it isn't all that predictable which one
> will get which number as they are detected especially if any of them are
> hotplug and may or may not be present at boot.
>
>
> On 9/15/2010 1:52 PM, Montaseri wrote:
>> I have not received any reply on this inquiry. Can someone send me an
>> email indicating that it is being heard.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Medi
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Montaseri<[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>  wrote:
>>
>>      Hi,
>>
>>      Just installed and tried Clonezilla ver
>>      clonezilla-live-20100721-lucid.iso and booted my Linux box.
>>
>>      I have two PATA partitions and a few more SCSI partitions. When I
>>      run fdisk from my (native) linux box, I see
>>
>>      [r...@meditest]# fdisk -l
>>
>>      Disk /dev/hda: 1048 MB, 1048190976 bytes
>>      32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
>>      Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes
>>
>>          Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>      /dev/hda1               1         131      132047+  83  Linux
>>      /dev/hda2             132        1015      891072   83  Linux
>>
>>      Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
>>      255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
>>      Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>>          Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>      /dev/sda1               1          17      136552   83  Linux
>>      /dev/sda2              18         540     4200997+  82  Linux swap
>>      /dev/sda3             541        1846    10490445   83  Linux
>>      /dev/sda4            1847       30401   229368037+   5  Extended
>>      /dev/sda5            1847        3152    10490444+  83  Linux
>>      /dev/sda6            3153        4458    10490444+  83  Linux
>>      /dev/sda7            4459        8636    33559784+  83  Linux
>>      /dev/sda8            8637        9942    10490444+  83  Linux
>>      /dev/sda9            9943       11248    10490444+  83  Linux
>>      /dev/sda10          11249       12554    10490444+  83  Linux
>>      /dev/sda11          12555       30401   143356027   83  Linux
>>
>>      But when I boot off of clonezilla, and run fdisk -l, I get
>>      (bunch of stuff skipped)
>>         Device Boot        Start           End         Blocks        Id
>>      System
>>      /dev/sda1             1                  131          nnnn
>>      83   Linux
>>      /dev/sda2             132              1015       nnnnn        83
>>      Linux           // nnnn is ok...just lazy
>>      ...skipping stuff....
>>      /dev/sdb1
>>      /dev/sdb2
>>
>>      Basically, Clonezilla is seeing both my flash disk and sata disk as
>>      scsi disks?
>>      Any ideas
>>
>>      Thanks
>>      Medi
>>
>>
>>
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