Although making the changes will not "lose" any data, I suspect you will have quite a number of problems booting. Almost all OS's assign drive names in a particular order. The boot loader depends on these drive names pointing to the "correct" drive. The configuration changes you considering will probably change the drive names for all the OS's on your system and thereby confuse the boot loader.
It is possible to fix these problems, but one would have to know what you are using for booting. Hal visit: http://www.rv-portal.com http://www.loiskellerman.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Isaac Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:21 PM Subject: [newbie] Can I switch my IDE controllers? > Right now I've got my HP 9100 CD-RW plugged into Primary Master, Windows IBM > Deskstar 30 Gig on Secondary Master with this Linux HD, a Maxtor 20, on > Secondary Slave. I did this because I originally wasn't able to get either > the IBM HD or the CD drive (I can't remember which, it was over a year ago) > to run right in the more normal configuration of Primary=HD / Secondary=CD. I > know much more about PC hardware stuff now, so I'm thinking about popping the > lid and switching the hard drives over to Primary and the CD-RW to Secondary. > I have to change the floppy cable anyway, so this would be a good time to do > it. My question is: > > Is there any risk involved in switching these IDE/ATAPI drives around? Could > I lose or damage data? Will my Linux bootloader be looking on the Secondary > Slave controller for the hard drive when I try to go to Linux? > > If there's anything I should worry about, please let me know. > > Thanks, > Isaac > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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