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I have installed ATA hard disk on my fedora and it shows hda in df -h command. I have seen the issue in some other rhel too..is there any other option to confirm whether installed hd is a SATA or ATA
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Its not an issue that /dev/hda is for ATA and /dev/sda is for sata/scsi hard drives.
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fdisk -l will show the statistics of any disk installed in the linux system. You may use lshw command to find out more details about the hardware of the hard disk.
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My god...I was wrongly updated that,..I mean ATA is showing sda in df -h......any solution for this..'
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Latest driver under Linux kernel 2.6.xx show many IDE devices as sda. There is no need to worry about it.
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