Linux, Finding Drives

IDE / ATAPI (hard drives & CD-ROM)

Physical drives

  • /dev/hda   (EIDE controller 1, drive 1)
  • /dev/hdb   (EIDE controller 1, drive 2)
  • /dev/hdc   (EIDE controller 2, drive 1)
  • /dev/hdd   (EIDE controller 2, drive 2)

Partitions

  • /dev/hda1   (first partition on /dev/hda)
  • /dev/hda2   (second partition on /dev/hda, and so forth)

SCSI (hard drives & CD-ROM)

Physical drives

  • /dev/sda   (first SCSI drive)
  • /dev/sdb   (second SCSI drive, and so forth)

Partitions

  • /dev/sda1   (first partition on /dev/sda)
  • /dev/sda2   (second partition on /dev/sda, and so forth)

/dev/cdrom   (link to the default CD-ROM device)

Floppy drives

  • /dev/fd0   (first floppy drive)
  • /dev/fd1   (second floppy drive)