Originally sd was for scsi drive and hd was for hard drive; most everything is 
handled by the serial attach subsystem these days, so sd now is more accurately 
serial device, and hd remains used by PATA primarily for historical reasons.

On 01/02/2012 04:50 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> but from my reading (and experience) it also includes USB devices.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Stephen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> S is for SCSI. Most everything was put there.
>> On Jan 2, 2012 4:36 PM, "Michael Havens" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering. Why do they call ata devices /dev/hdx and everything
>>> else /dev/sdx (where x = the drive number)?
>>>
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