On 11/10/10 11:56, Barry Drake wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:38 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: >> IDE is not hot-swapable. you need sata > I don't intend hot-swapping. I shut down, change the caddy and re-boot. > It has to be IDE for compatibility with what I have already. > > -- Does Ubuntu see the IDE DVDR properly (/dev/hda?) -- What happens in Ubuntu when you do sfdisk -s /dev/hdb (or whatever the IDE hard drive comes up as)
You should be able to have it mount by putting in fstab: /dev/hdb1 /path/to/mountpoint <filesystem> defaults 0 0 the old school way Obviously, it needs to be the right /dev path. And this assumes that the filesystems are always the same. (you have to replace <filesystem> with ext4/vfat/ntfs/whatever) Glen -- Glen Mehn glen.m...@oba.co.uk skype: glenmehn | blog: http://glen.mehn.net/mba UK: +44(0)7942 675 755 | US: +1 415 704 4737 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/