Re: hd%ds%d

[Pär Karlsson]

Ottavio Campana wrote:

> I was reading the mach reference manual and I've found:
>
> --enable-ide 
>    Enables the IDE controller devices hd%d, hd%ds%d. 
>
> What is hd%ds%d ?
>
> Bye
The %d stands for a number indicating in this case any number for the 
harddrive slices. This might be a leftover from the C source code 
comments? So hd%ds%d means for example hd1s1 (the first slice of your 
first harddrive) or hd3s2 (the second slice of your third harddrive).