IDE is not hot-swapable. you need sata Jacob Mansfield Programmer
On 11 October 2010 11:27, Barry Drake <bdr...@crosswire.org> wrote: > 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/ >
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