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Re: Why are drives called "wd0", "wd1", etc?

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Subject: Re: Why are drives called "wd0", "wd1", etc?
From: Joost van de Griek <gyorpb%gmail.com@localhost>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 12:52:12 +0200

On 4 August 2011 12:30, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> In Linux, disks have device names like "hda" and "hdb" which I take to mean
> "hard drive a" and "hard drive b". Why does NetBSD use "wd0", "wd1" etc?
> What does the "w" stand for?

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_IBM_disk_storage#IBM_3340>

.tsooJ

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- Why are drives called "wd0", "wd1", etc?
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