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From: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
To: Chris Jones <chrisjones@spin.net.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Hard drive detection
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 09:13:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA3D60F.9090601@teksavvy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120504185604.3addfd2e@ubuntu>

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/

Cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-04 13:13 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 [this message]
2012-05-04 23:30   ` Chris Jones
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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