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Re: Re-assignement of hard drives

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Ángel Gutiérrez Rodríguez <angel_gr@terra.es> wrote:
>  We have some computers running scientific Linux that share an internal DVD 
> unit (we chenage it to the one needed). The problem we've found is that 
> plugging in that unit changes the way the OS "labels" the disks. This is 
> (just an hypotetical example):
> 			/		/home		DVD-unit
> Without DVD-unit	/dev/hda1	/dev/hdb1
> With DVD-unit		/dev/hdc1	/dev/hdd1	/dev/hda
> 
> Is there a way I can keep that assignemnt fixed ? Anywhere I can find info 
> about it?

/dev/hda is the master on your primary ide interface.
/dev/hdb is the slave on your primary ide interface
/dev/hdc is the master on your secondary ide interface
/dev/hdd is the slave on your secondary ide interface

It seems to me as if you have connected your DVD as the single drive on
your primary ide interface and connected your hard drives to the secondary
interface. Usually it is a better idea to connect the booting hard drive
as master to your primary ide interface.

I would say that you should simply switch the ide connections on your
motherboard to fix this problem.

regards Henrik
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Re-assignement of hard drives Ángel Gutiérrez Rodríguez <angel_gr@terra.es> - 2011-02-10 10:01 +0100
  Re: Re-assignement of hard drives Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2011-02-10 15:31 +0000
  Re: Re-assignement of hard drives Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-02-12 08:58 +0100

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