[syslinux] BIOS disk geometry and Linux 2.6

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:15:20PM -0600, ganapathy murali krishnan wrote:
> I always thought that drive 0x80 is either /dev/hda or /dev/sda. Since 
> in most cases there is no SCSI drives, the mapping between 0x8{0,1,2,3} 
> to /dev/hd{a,b,c,d} was trivial. Hmmm. You always keep learning stuff.

It's 0x80=/dev/hdi 0x81=/dev/hdk 0x82=/dev/hda. PCI IDE or SCSI controllers
oftem get first than integrated ide controllers, though that can be
changed by some BIOSs configuration.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha