Acer laptop TMP253-E; are there two hdd devices
by badbetty from LinuxQuestions.org on (#55QSG)
Someone told me that when 'learning' no question is a 'stupid' question.
Well, perhaps this one is :)
I was given an old Acer TMP253-E laptop with Windows 8 on it. It is Celeron 1.9GHz dual core, 8GB Memory and some disk drive setup which is the subject of this question.
I didnt care to bother checking windows on it and went straight into installing Slackware 64 14.2 onto it.
During setup (cfdisk, fdisk stage), the listed HDD devices were /dev/sda and /dev/sdb - the sda was ~700GB and the sdb ~8GB.
When linux reports two devices like this, does it mean that there are two physical devices onboard ?
(I could open it up and check of course ).
If it does imply two devices (as opposed to some other odd setup I've not experience previously), what would the [relatively tiny] 8GB have been for... a e.g. recovery device , something to do with UEFI/EFI , ?
Hopefully someone can offer some insight and if this is a poor (rather than stupid) question, please accept my apologies. If it is stupid as well, oh well :-)
Regards
Well, perhaps this one is :)
I was given an old Acer TMP253-E laptop with Windows 8 on it. It is Celeron 1.9GHz dual core, 8GB Memory and some disk drive setup which is the subject of this question.
I didnt care to bother checking windows on it and went straight into installing Slackware 64 14.2 onto it.
During setup (cfdisk, fdisk stage), the listed HDD devices were /dev/sda and /dev/sdb - the sda was ~700GB and the sdb ~8GB.
When linux reports two devices like this, does it mean that there are two physical devices onboard ?
(I could open it up and check of course ).
If it does imply two devices (as opposed to some other odd setup I've not experience previously), what would the [relatively tiny] 8GB have been for... a e.g. recovery device , something to do with UEFI/EFI , ?
Hopefully someone can offer some insight and if this is a poor (rather than stupid) question, please accept my apologies. If it is stupid as well, oh well :-)
Regards