[ale] moving CD-ROM from master to slave

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed May 14 14:28:00 EDT 2003


Did you set the jumpers correctly on the two drives.  Depending on the 
age of the drives, hdc should be set as master, and the cdrom as slave. 
  Some drives have a third setting when it's a single drive on the ide.

Robert E. Karaffa, II wrote:
> hi folks, I've been trying to find information about this and haven't
> come up with anything that makes sense.  Here's what I've done:
> 
> -an old Gateway 200MHz Mandrake box. -originally had two hard drives
> and one CD-ROM -boot drive is 3Gb, master on IDE0 -storage drive is
> 6Gb, slave on IDE0 -CD-ROM is master on IDE1
> 
> I added an 80Gb IDE drive to give us added storage capacity, and to
> improve performance (the initial Mandrake install I did was, well,
> not done as well as it could have been, like, /var didn't have its
> own partition, nor did /home, or /usr...geez...).
> 
> so I put the 80Gb drive as master on IDE1, moved the CD-ROM to slave,
> and thought all was well.  Now, I'm seeing {Drive Not Ready}{Waiting
> for DMA} messages for hdc in dmesg and, of course, at bootup. I've
> been trying to find out how the CD-ROM gets assigned its "hd" 
> designation, since I've effectively moved it from hdc to
> hdd...correct?  and now, since hdc is a hard drive...well, fstab
> doesn't specify that the CD-ROM was hdc, although now hdc is the new
> 80Gb drive which holds /var and /home, and hdd should be the CD-ROM.
> 
> Can anyone straighten me out?
> 
> 
> -Bob K.

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