Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 16:52:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
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Subject: Re: hdparm lets your IDE disk spin down
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On 5 Mar 1998, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> But how do I get which physical IDE disk and partition 'c:' or 
> 'g:' is? For those who knows about Linux, I need a mapping from 
> DOSish letters to /dev/hd{a,b,c,d}.

AFAIK, it's impossible without reading the boot sectors of the disks and 
interpreting the partition tables.

Also, don't forget that some drives might not be found at all that way: 
those which are RAM disks, SUBSTed and JOINed disks, CD-ROMs, networked 
drives, etc.