Here's an interesting one for you. I have a PC with a motherboard that has 6xSATA ports and one IDE port. I've put two SATA drives in plus an IDE DVD-R drive and an IDE drive caddy (as slave and master) so I can swap storage drives between three desktop pcs.
One of the SATA drives is Windows 2000. When I boot this, it finds and mounts all drives with no problem. Ubuntu 10.10 finds all the drives OK but refuses to mount the IDE hard drive saying it already has a drive mounted at the same mount point. The only way I can mount the IDE drive is to put a line in /etc/fstab that tells it to mount UUID=[UUID of the drive I'm going to use]. This allows it to work just fine, but is a bit of a pain, as I have to edit /etc/fstab before I re-boot with a different drive. If it finds the wrong drive, ubuntu hangs during the boot when it tries to mount the drive that has gone! Currently I have all the drives I want to swap (four in number) in /etc/fstab so I comment out the ones that aren't there. Any thoughts? Regards, Barry Drake. -- Sent from my Dell Netbook using Ubuntu - the window-free environment that gives me real fresh air. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
