On Monday 15 November 2004 03:37 am, jalal wrote:
I just had a /dev/hdb disk that wouldh't mount. I have /dev/hda on IDE1 and /dev/hdb on IDE2 and I shifted /dev/hdb onto IDE1 (as a slave) and it works again. Whether the problem was the cable or the mobo I'm not sure... I'll probably replace the mobo soon anyway.
I must be misunderstanding something. I thought /dev/hdb is *always* the second device (slave) on the first IDE controller. If a drive is on the second IDE controller (master), I thought it was /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd as a slave (even with no device on the first IDE controller slave- postition. If that is the case, you wouldn't find /dev/hdb on the second IDE controller. hd...a,b,c,d,e,f.etc shows where the drive is, not which drive 'number' it is. But maybe I'm misunderstanding something. Doug