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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.

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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

Testing a Harddisk

Resources:

  • ["Partition"]

External Links: