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[โ€“] luna@lemmy.catgirl.biz 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Back in the olden times the Linux kernel had a dedicated parallel-ATA subsystem with /dev/hda devices. It was then rolled up in to the scsi subsystem to simplify maintaining drivers (everything using the same library for disk access). I'm old :(

[โ€“] bobzrkr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

And who could forget /dev/fd0 for floppies

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