-----Original Message----- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 02-Mar-05 22:24 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Cc: Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting up an extra hard disk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 Mar 2005 11:00, Paul Smith wrote: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:59:54 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Yeah, unplug the ide ribbon cable. I'm not sure if just unplugging > > >the power is enough. > > > > Just unplugging the power can cause interesting problems sometimes. It > > all depends on what the drive's electronics do with the connections when > > they don't have power. I have seen it where you could not access the > > other drive on the cable because the unpowered drive was still plugged > > in. > > Thanks. I have now the following question: how can I commute the > master with the slave, I mean, how can I promote the slave to master > and downgrade the master to slave? > If you use the Cable Select method, you have to set the jumper to Cable Select, and the position on the cable sets whether it is master or slave. There are many reasons, though, why I do not use that method. The other method is to set the jumper on one drive to master and on the other to slave. Most drives have either moulded-in markings 'MA SL CS' close to the jumpers or printed on diagrams to indicate where to set the jumpers. Other than that, many manufacturers have documents on the Internet showing the settings - google will find them. If you need more help, give us the model name and number. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJaJekFAvMr/nNX8RAot9AJ4vJsEEz5bGEnyvqE5R3lcKJo3i9gCfWJ/S qGIi2gBeAIi/jdRBB8jGUq8= =HESG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- I'm not sure if this is part of the question (but it's a problem I had this evening, and got round it be changing the jumpers back) If device hda becomes hdb because the master/slaves have been swapped, how do you update the linux/mandrake installation to look on a different disk? Hugh Hugh
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