gbjazzman Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 I've recently started messing with Linux on my Dell Inspiron 1100. Now from everything I can tell, the default harddrive is always /dev/hda. But on my Dell it's /dev/hdc. Does anyone happen to know why? It's not effecting anything, I'm just curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Open up the drive with a partition manager (Gparted i like, comes with ubuntu live CD) and see what the physical layout of the drive is? Also, are you booting from a LiveCD or an installed linux system? If its KDE, try going into the desktop options and checking the "show device icons" bit, had me stumped for a few mins first time i loaded up linux. I have a dell, which also has /dev/hdc, its a compact flash drive i keep in there (full of drivers). Your system got a SD or similar slot in there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 This doesn't have any thing to do with partions, I think it has some thing to do with the motherboard configuration. If it's hdc then it's probably the master driver on the second chain. hda would be master on the first chain, hdb would be slave on the first chain and so forth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 /dev/hda means it is on the first IDE channel, /dev/hdb slave of the first channel I think, and so on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klick Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Yeah as far as I know hda referes to the first physical harddrive, hda1 is the first partition on that harddrive. When i got my thinkpad it threw me off cause in the fstab i had to put /dev/sda in order to get my disks to mount. I think sda means SCSI device or something. But yeah, im guessing it's hdc on your dell because it's your 3rd disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrall Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 What would HDD be because my linux box always says HDD. :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 so /mnt/hdc/ is the master drive on the second ide channel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbjazzman Posted April 4, 2006 Author Share Posted April 4, 2006 That's weird. The laptop has 2 IDE devices, the hard drive and the combo drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 That's weird. The laptop has 2 IDE devices, the hard drive and the combo drive. maybe ur combo is on the primay ide :S n ur hdd on the secondary ide :S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 Is the linux distro a live CD or a HD installed linux? Dual booting? I said use a partition editor mainly because you can see what devices have what on them. What does /mnt/hdc actually have on it? Could be as simple as the devices plugged in the wrong/a different place? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klick Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 What would HDD be because my linux box always says HDD. :? /dev/hdd would be the 4th IDE device on your mobo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klick Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 so /mnt/hdc/ is the master drive on the second ide channel? /mnt/hdc is a directory most likely it was created to be a mount point I'm guessing you have a device called /dev/hdc, and in your /etc/fstab file you have a line that activates that mount. You can always force it to mount by #mount /dev/hdc -t ext2 /mnt/hdc ext2 is the file system format you have on that drive, replace accordingly with ext3 reiserfs, xfs ntfs vat fat or whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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