Yes that did the trick, and it was absolutely painless :) Thanks.
Best regards SÃren On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:23, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Saturday 21 February 2004 08:58 am, SÃren Neigaard wrote: > > I have a hd and a cd-w on the same cable, and i have accidently placed > > the jumbers so that the cd-w is master and the hd is slave, even though > > according to cable-select it should be the other way around. > > > > I have been experiencing some instability when copying/moving large data > > to/from this hd, and I was wondering if it would help if I changed the > > disk to be master and the cd-w to be slave? > > > > So how do I do this while preserving its mount points and without too > > much trouble? > > > > Heres my fstab: > > > > /dev/hda2 / xfs defaults 1 1 > > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 > > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > > /dev/hda6 /home xfs defaults 1 2 > > /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 1 1 > > /dev/hdd5 /mnt/diverse xfs defaults 1 2 > > none /mnt/floppy supermount > > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,uma > > sk=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 > > /dev/hdd1 /mnt/mydata xfs defaults 1 2 > > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows ntfs user,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 > > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > /dev/hda8 /usr xfs defaults 1 2 > > /dev/hda5 /var xfs defaults 1 2 > > /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > > The disks i want to move is: > > > > /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 1 1 > > ----- > > /dev/hdd5 /mnt/diverse xfs defaults 1 2 > > /dev/hdd1 /mnt/mydata xfs defaults 1 2 > > You appear to be using ide-scsi emulation so you will have two steps to take. > The first would be to remap fstab for the new mount points. hdd would change > to hdc. > > The next would be to change the lilo options line from "hdc=ide-scsi" to > "hdd=ide-scsi" > > Quick scenario: Edit fstab for the changes, Edit lilo.conf, Issue Lilo > command to write the changes to disk. Shutdown computer. Move the cables > physically setting the jumpers correctly, turn the computer back on and you > should be in business. > > I just did something similar myself and it went through without a hitch.
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