as always, thank you. someone must have switched it. I'm a dummy for not checking.
-steve
Ed Wilts wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:05:21PM -0700, Stephen Mah wrote:
I have two compaq desktops. They are nearly identical and both of linux install. However, one of the machines are showing the ide hard-drive as /dev/hdc. I have nothing attached and the computer only has one hard-drive and one cdrom. I tried jumping the hd to "master".
The devices normally are assigned from /dev/hda b and so on right?
hda is the master drive on IDE0. hdb is the slave on IDE0. hdc is the master drive on IDE1. hdd is the slave on IDE1.
It looks like you need to swap the cables on the motherboard end. hdc then becomes hda.
On a computer with only a single hard drive and a single CD-ROM, the standard is to have the hard drive be the master on IDE0 and the CD to be the master on IDE1.
