James Wilkinson wrote:
Mitch Wiedemann posted a long how-to on adding a PCI ATA adapter card.
Thank you very much. I've got a few observations, though:
SITUATION:
I have in my computer two hard disk drives (/dev/hda & /dev/hdb), and
two CD drives (/dev/scd0 (CDRW) and /dev/hdd (DVD)) connected to the
motherboard IDE controller.
That's not necessarily optimal: but you know that. I assume you've got
them spread out better now?
No, actually I didn't know that... You mean for speed of data
transfers? Put my HDDs on different cables? Whaddaya mean?
Any reason why you're still using ide-scsi for the CDRW?
Um. Ignorance? That's how FC2 set it up. and it works, so I haven't
changed it. How should it be done differently? What are the advantages
of doing it differently?
PROBLEM:
When I installed the card and connected some extra hard disk drives to
its cables, the Fedora Core 2 Linux kernel loaded the drivers for the
ide controllers in the wrong order. It loaded the Adaptec ASH-1233
driver first, thereby making the spare drives attached to it /dev/hda
and /dev/hdc (they were both set as single, master devices on their
respective cables). My motherboard ide controller driver was loaded
next, causing my existing Linux drives to become /dev/hde and /dev/hdf
and my CD drives /dev/hdg and /dev/hdh! The system would boot, but the
swap and my home partition were unavailable.
I'm guessing that you refer to your home partition in /etc/fstab by
device, not label. You've just found one reason why Red Hat and Fedora
prefer using labels...
James.
Yes, I thought of reconfiguring everything so that the system would work
with the Linux partitions as /dev/hde and /dev/hdf, but I'm the sort of
guy who likes to stay up late figuring out how to make a computer do
what I want it to do, not the other way 'round. I like my primary OS
partition to be on /dev/hda. I don't even have a really good reason
why, other than I know to be REALLY careful when fiddling with /dev/hda.
I'm fairly stubborn that way. Does my stubborness make sense? Not
always. And it often causes me to lose sleep, but whaddaya gonna do? :)
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Mitch Wiedemann
mc^2 Computer Consulting
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