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Re: amd64 installer (Debian From Scratch)



> BTW, i'm running a 32bit Debian/GNU Linux testing/unstable on this
> machine as well, kernel is 2.6.6-1-k7, and the harddisk is mounted as
> '/dev/hde' - with the built-in SATA support as provided by the kernel
> shipping with DFS it is '/dev/sda' ... kinda strange, any ideas why this
> is as it is?!

Many/most of the drivers for sata chipsets use the scsi kernel interface. I 
believe the sata standard is actually closer to scsi that conventional ide in 
terms of the features it provides.

Paul



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