From: Chris Jones <chrisjones@spin.net.au>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Subject: Re: Hard drive detection
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 09:30:00 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120505093000.1d9789dd@ubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA3D60F.9090601@teksavvy.com>
On Fri, 04 May 2012 09:13:51 -0400
Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com> wrote:
> On 12-05-04 04:56 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
> > What section of the kernel detects internal hard drives upon boot?
>
> That depends upon how the drive is connected.
> But generally speaking, the device driver for the drive-controller
> will probe and find any attached drives.
>
> So for modern kernels, on systems with SATA drives,
> the code is in linux/drivers/ata/
>
>
Thanks Mark. That's exactly what I was looking for. And are both PATA
and SATA internal drives both located in drivers/ata?
Regards
Chris Jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-04 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-04 8:56 Hard drive detection Chris Jones
2012-05-04 9:20 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-05-04 13:13 ` Mark Lord
2012-05-04 23:30 ` Chris Jones [this message]
2012-05-05 2:51 ` Mark Lord
2012-05-05 4:00 ` Chris Jones
2012-05-05 14:46 ` Mark Lord
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