----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:56 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Swap on a seperate physical drive
> I have two HDD in my system, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. > When I try to mkswap or fdisk on /dev/hdb (during the > install using the gentoo install CD) I get: > > unable to start /dev/hdb > > > now, this drive is my primary slave, and works fine in > Windows XP, and RH. What's the deal here? I might be having a total brain fart here (entirely possible, work tends to do that to me) but doesn't the lettering scheme go: a, Master primary controller b, Master secondary controller c, Slave primary controller d, Slave secondary controller If I'm remembering this correctly (been ages since I've done an IDE system with more than one drive) but if I'm right, then you should try fdisk /dev/hdc Andrew "frugal" Dacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tildefrugal.net/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
