On 04/02/10 09:42, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:47:09 -0700, walt wrote:
However, if you want to leave both cables connected and change your
BIOS to boot from 'sdb', you will need to edit some of the files on
'sdb',
Check your BIOS first, some allow you to disable individual SATA ports,
so you can disconnect the drive without pulling cables.
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Neil Bothwick
Good suggestion, but I'm not sure my motherboard BIOS supports it.
I have GA-MA790GP-DS4H motherboard, reading from the manual:
it has OnChip SATA Type (SATA2_0 ~ SATA2_3 connectors)
Mode: Native IDE
RAID
AHCI - Advanced Host Controller to enable advanced Serial ATA features such as
Native Command Queuing and hot plug.
Is it the one AHCI? I've never used it.
I'm more interested in configuring it as an auxiliary drive "sdb" to serve as a bootable backup. The box will be installed in a remote location and I'll have
an ssh access to it.
The box is running in a medical clinic and I'm mostly concern that after the emerge if something happens, I want the user to be able to boot "grub" from
second drive, and it will be "sdb" (hd1); but during normal operation, when running from "sda" I want to backup some application files to it so "sdb" stays
current.
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Joseph
