hda and hdb are on the first IDE channel, hdc and hdd are on the second. Ergo, on the two machines the disks are attached to different IDE channels. - rick warner On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:05, 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? > > My kickstart script doesn't like this. Seems to only install on /dev/hda > > > -steve >