0x4E4FYeah yeah, we know you're special
DumbAceDragonWell it’s sdx because they both use the SATA interface. The sdx convention actually comes from scsi though, and the fact that SATA and USB drives use it might point to some code reuse, or maybe a temporary solution that never got fixed due to breaking backwards compatibility.
Fun fact: IDE drives use the hdx naming convention.
stoyI thought they standardized on sd* even for IDE drive a few years back…
I didn’t know that. Maybe nvme hasn’t been added to the standard yet then.
No, they decided that nvme were too fancy to be modeled by mundane ‘sdxn’ scheme. They hypothetically have ‘namespaces’ and ‘controller paths’ and they wanted to have the naming scheme model that fully.