On 11 October 2010 14:55, Glen Mehn <glen.m...@oba.co.uk> wrote: > On 11/10/10 14:49, Barry Drake wrote: >> You should be able to have it mount by putting in fstab: >>> /dev/hdb1 /path/to/mountpoint<filesystem> defaults 0 0 >> Thanks - that works OK! I now have /dev/sda1 /media/HD3 ntfs 0 0 in >> fstab, and it works just fine with any ntfs drive. I ought to have >> thought of that instead of using the UUID. I just wonder why automount >> tries to mount using /dev/sdb1 when it is there all the time >> as /dev/sda1? Windows doesn't make that mistake - if that is what it >> is. > Hi Barry, > > Glad that helps. I would guess that the Automounter is having trouble > with 2 drives on one IDE channel.
That shouldn't be the case. I have 2 IDE hard disks on my primary IDE channel & 2 DVD burners on my secondary, with no issues. Most of my PCs have had multiple drives - some up to 6 HDs + 3 CDs - and I do not have any PCs with SATA. > It should be /dev/hdb1 (the DVD drive > should be /dev/hda) You should remember, too, that if you have 2 devices > working simultaneously on one IDE controller will result in > significantly degraded performance (essentially, the controller can only > use one device at a time). Not the case since about 1995 with the appearance of Intel's 82430 "Triton" chipset for the original Pentium. Since that appeared, almost everything (apart from one or 2 really rubbish SIS chipsets, for instance) has supported busmastering on IDE, which means overlapped IO, as I understand it. The 82430HX and 82430VX chipset's PIIX2 controller allowed 2 different IDE devices on a single channel to operate at different speeds, as well, so one can be (say) PIO4 and one UDMA2, without conflict. > The automounter's really more set up for hot-swappable drives. Another > solution might be to use IDE=>USB cases, but it sounds like you're > sorted. Glad so. I'd just make sure the drives in the caddy had distinctive labels on all their partitions, myself! :¬) -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
