[Malvern] Adding a hard drive.
Chris Eilbeck
chris at hyperspace.org.uk
Sat Mar 26 14:51:55 GMT 2005
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 02:48:56PM +0000, Geoff Bagley wrote:
>
> > What do you mean by running?
> >
> They are powered up, spinning, and visible to cfdisk.
> Only hda and hdb actually do anything, depending on
> which copy of Sarge is running.
Ah ok.
> Many thanks indeed for the procedure.
> By the way, I have altered the second ide set-up.
> I now have the extra drive /dev/hdc as master, and the
> DVD is now a CDRW/DVD as slave.
I'm not sure it'll make any difference. It used to be that the slowest
device on an ide bus made the faster one run at its speed but I don't
think it's like that any more and it doesn't matter so much which is
master and which is slave.
Chris
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