On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 07:43:33 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote: > On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 03:17, Julian Visch wrote: > > > How does the numbering system work? > > > > 0=a, 1=b, 2=c,3=d,4=e,5=e,6=f? Does it ignore cd drives? > > No, not as far as I know. > > I think that most mobos only allow 4 ide drives (2 on each cable) so you have > hda, hdb, hdc and hdd for your boot loader. (even if they are set as scsi > drives for Linux CD burning) > > (I am not an expert though)
Most mobos have two IDE controllers: primary and secondary. Each IDE controller can control two drives: master and slave. Thus, you end up with four drives: Primary master (hda) Primary slave (hdb) Secondary master (hdc) Secondary slave (hdd) If you somehow have a third and maybe forth IDE controller: Tertiary master (hde) Tertiary slave (hdf) etc.. If you only have two drives, but have each one on its own IDE controller, then they will be hda and hdc - note hdb skipped because there is no primary slave in this case. A drive can be a harddisk, CD drive, or any other storage device that uses ATAPI to talk to the mobo. Please note the the terms "master" and "slave" are not to be used in some government departments in the USA (you guessed it - someone complained). -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
