Thanks folks for the help with hardware. Then, I came to a halt again! Manually partitioning the disks: After matching the partitions from hda (master) and hdb (slave), and clicking on "finish and write changes to disk", the following error pops up: <box> partition disks: identical mount points for two file systems. Two file systems are assigned the same mount point (/): ide1 master, partition #1 (hda1) and ide slave, partition #1 (hdb1). please correct this by changing mount points. <end box> So on both drives there is the root partition with the ext3 fs, they are both set to be formatted, the bootable flag is set on both, the mount points are / (root dir), and sizes are identical. Finally, they are matched. How to proceed? Many thanks in advance! Ned ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:07 PM Subject: Re: raids > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > In fact, if you were to put 2 master drives on the same controller, > your machine wouldn't boot. As for where to put the second drive, I'd > recommend hdb on the first controller, rather then hdd, since you > don't want to mix cd-rom and hard drives if you can avoid it. > > As for your question how to do it, you need to set the jumper on the > back of the second drive to slave, connect the cable, make sure that > secondary slave is set to auto-detect in bios, and you should be all > set. You'll probably need sighted help with setting the jumper, if you > don't know which pins on the drive are for slave. You shouldn't need > to touch the primary hd. Hth. > > Greg > > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:41:53PM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote: >> <Hi, >> In order to set up rade, You do not need to have two master drives. >> I suggest you set up the second drive as a slave on hdb or hdd. >> HTH, Willem >> >> > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFAIoj7s9z/XlyUyARAks3AJ9h3l0V1p6WBGjoMZel9LV5+hslxQCeNk1t > wc6uLfqXlySVVN53Tj3c9eo= > =d6Kb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
