On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> It would APPEAR that Linux is trying to swap the drives somehow. CHS *does*
Nope. Sorry. Nothing about swaping drives. It sees that
correctly.
> indeed stand for "Cylinders/Heads/Sectors-per-track." My suggestion would
I know. But my question was... why is the string CHS in the
same field as LBA? LBA means Large Block Allocation or something
like that. While C/H/S means something when it's folowed by three
numbers.
> be to make sure that you don't accidentally have the SECONDARY master on the
> same IDE chain as the PRIMARY master. Also, do you have the primary jumpered
> as Master? If not, and the "old" drive is still on the primary IDE chain,
Nope. I built my new computer myself. I know what I did.
And I'm not a newbie at this part. This is not the first time I do
it. I know how to make the difference between prmary and secondary
IDE, or setting up the jumpers. When it comes to jumpers I move
around hard drives as removable media quite often. I know this is
not the best choice. But when I can't afford a zip drive (neither
me or my pals) and I have to move tens of megs...
> then that would probably be part of the problem. Also, if I'm reading it
> correctly, you're thinking that HDA should be your SECONDARY drive... IIRC,
Nope. I'm not that newbie. ;-)
> though, hdA is your PRIMARY drive, so that information would be correct
> (more or less) for your primary drive (do you have multiple partitions on
> the primary drive, the 8447 Mb drive?) hdB is your second hard drive on the
> IDE chain and hdC would be the third, etc....
hdb is my cdrom. It's the slave on the primary IDE. hdc is
my old drive. It is the master on the secondary IDE. And this is
the way it should be. Of course, I can put the old drive as
primary master. But it's quite old, so a lot slower. And I plan to
remove it from the case when I'll be sure my computer is in perfect
shape.
> That's about all I can figure.... Good Luck!
> John
Raider
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