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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:45:13 +0100
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Cc: Lee Trager <Lee@PicturesInMotion.net>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org

Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 10:01 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jan Engelhardt:
> (If I would have known a lot earlier about Linux I would have proposed 
> "id*" for the IDE disks.)

IDE basically did not exist at the time that the hd name was chosen.