For drive assignments, I need to explain the following and I hope it doesn't geet too deep too fast. I honestly can't remember where I first learned this so that's why I figured to post this kind of stuff to the list and to our new our new friend here. First off, Linux doesn't use drive letters, that's a DOS/windows thing. All drives in Linux begin with a path name like /hda1, /hdb2, /hdc1 or /sda1, /sdb1, etc. The /hd? names go with IDE drives and /sd? names go with SCSI type drives. I should say that all these drive names actually begin with /dev/whatever but for brevity, I'll leave out the /dev part here; just lazy, I guess. /hda is the first drive on the first IDE controler. /hdb is the second or slave drive on the first IDE controler. /hdc is primary drive on the second IDE controler, /hdd would be the slave drive on the second controler. See the pattern? The same pattern would hold for SCSI drives however, I'm not sure if you would be limitted to two drives per SCSI controler. I don't have any SCSI hard drives here so not very familiar with SCSI protocols. The number corresponds to partitions on the current drive, hence /hda1 points to the first logical partition and /hda2 is the second and so forth. Most linux systems would have a minimum of two partitions - one for swap and one for the main file system. Since your 80gig hard drive is so big, you might want to create several partitions but I'll leave that discussion for another thread. I hope this makes some sense to you. On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Glenn Ervin wrote: > also, > how can I figure out what to assign to my drives? > I have an 80gb harddrive. > I have a r/w CD ROM, DVD, zip disk, and a removable harddrive bay. I think > the removable drive is on an IDE controller card. > Thanks. > > > Sincerely, > O. Glenn Ervin-- (Lenny) N0YJV > Northeast Nebraska > gervin at kdsi.net > or My Work e-mail: > gervin at ncbvi.state.ne.us > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
