Hello, here is a snippet from the log of a qube 3 pro booting.
Mar 11 18:40:47 blue kernel: raid1: device hdc1 operational as mirror 1 Mar 11 18:40:47 blue kernel: raid1: device hda1 operational as mirror 0 I hope that this answers the question. It appears that hdc1 is the second drive. Cheers Simon On Monday, March 11, 2002 6:22 pm, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't use a qube, so I can't say for sure, but I can say that in Linux, >your disk devices work like this: >/dev/hda <-- first disk on first ide >/dev/hdb <-- second disk on first ide >/dev/hdc <-- first disk on second ide >/dev/hdd <-- second disk on second ide >etc. > >So if the cube has two ide headers, each presumably allowing two disks (for >a total of 4), the the master drive on the second chain would be /dev/hdc, >not /dev/hdb. > >Don't know if this helps or not. >Matt Nuzum > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ed Halley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 10:02 AM >Subject: [cobalt-developers] Second IDE device on a Qube 3? > > >> There are two IDE cable headers inside the Qube 3, to match the two >> drive bays. The single-drive setup uses the IDE header closest to the >> edge of the baseboard pcb, and Linux enumerates that as /dev/hda. >> >> I tried a second drive in bay two, but this doesn't appear as /dev/hdb >> with a simple fdisk listing. Is this a second IDE chain (so both drives >> should be considered solo on their chain), or is this the same IDE chain >> (requiring master/slave jumpers, which seems odd if the second bay was >> intended for software RAID)? >> >> I don't want to use RAID, just interested in adding capacity for >> automated bz2 archive spooling. Any pointers would be helpful. >> >> -- >> [ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cobalt-developers mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers >> > >_______________________________________________ >cobalt-developers mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers > _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
