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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Back in the olden times the Linux kernel had a dedicated parallel-ATA subsystem with /dev/hda devices. It was then rolled up in to the scsi subsystem to simplify maintaining drivers (everything using the same library for disk access). I'm old :(

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Raises a glass in Debian 3.0

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

And who could forget /dev/fd0 for floppies

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Having both IDE and SATA together was awesome. "Sooo which one is which?". Good times.