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

To: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Why are drives called "wd0", "wd1", etc?
From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 12:49:35 +0200

Also "man wd" explains the drivers inheritage:

DESCRIPTION
     The wd driver supports hard disks that emulate the Western Digital
     WD100x.  This includes standard MFM, RLL, ESDI, IDE, and EIDE drives.

Martin

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