Apparently, though unproven, at 23:38 on Saturday 01 January 2011, Daniel D Jones did opine thusly:
> This is more of a curiosity question than a problem. I just added a new > diskdrive to my system. It's the same model as one I already have > installed. lshw shows the following for the two disks: > > *-disk:2 > description: ATA Disk > product: ST31000528AS > vendor: Seagate > physical id: 0.0.0 > bus info: s...@2:0.0.0 > logical name: /dev/sdc > version: CC37 > serial: 9VP21EZB > size: 931GiB (1TB) > capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos > configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=2adeb97b > > > *-disk > description: ATA Disk > product: ST31000528AS > vendor: Seagate > physical id: 0 > bus info: i...@1.0 > logical name: /dev/hdc > version: CC3E > serial: 9VP9G4VW > size: 931GiB (1TB) > capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm partitioned > partitioned:dos > configuration: signature=1e89b64b smart=on > > > These are both SATA disks. Why is the first one showing up as /dev/sdc and > the second as /dev/hdc? I thought all SATA disks would show up as sd* and > EIDE disks showed up as hd*. > > I note that the bus info is different - one showing the scsi bus and one > the ide bus. Both devices are plugged into a row of SATA ports on my > mobo. Maybe the new disk is set to IDE mode as shipped? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
