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= External Harddisks = * Wester Digital, [http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=353 My Book] works out-of-the-box. It acts as ordinary mass storage device /dev/sda1. |
Hard dis device name
If you have IDE Hard disks:
/dev/hda is IDE primary master (equivalent to c: in Windows) /dev/hdb is IDE primary slave (equivalent to d: and so on)
The exception is if you have a CDROM or DVDROMs attached to the first IDE controller, those could be named as /dev/hda.
If your hard disk is attached to a second IDE controller, it will be named /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd as follows:
- /dev/hdc is IDE secondary master /dev/hdd is IDE secondary slave
Nowadays, with SATA controllers, the drive may be named as /dev/hde /dev/hdf etc. Sometimes the IDE disks are /dev/sda (eg SiI RAID capable controller)
If you have SCSI hard disks, Linux names them as /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc.
External Harddisks
Wester Digital, [http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=353 My Book] works out-of-the-box. It acts as ordinary mass storage device /dev/sda1.
Testing a Harddisk
e2fsprogs (using the badblocks command)
Resources:
- ["Partition"]
External Links: