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On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 18:46, Paul Trevethan wrote:
It may be an urban myth, but I was always under the impression that it was unwise to mix hard drives and cdroms on the ame IDE cable?
The only "price" I pay for the current setup is that I rip to hard drive and burn from there to cdr/rw. I believe that is better anyway to avoid potential 'coasters'. What if I wanted to add a 2nd hard drive later?
In your scenario, it sounds like /etc/fstab is the only change + redo the k3b setup (re-detect) after coming back up I presume?
Paul
Some (mostly older) hard drives and cd drives don't mix well, expecially not if you put them on a ATA-100 cable. The newer drives should work fine, although I haven't had the courage to try it yet... About fstab ect. If your fstab lists the symlinks to your devices (i.e. /dev/cdrecorder instead /dev/hdd), you only need to change the symlink before you switch off to replace the drive. Remember to check your IDE-DMA afterwards in Yast2. Yast2 still don't pick up my ide-scsi devices - I had to put hdparm statements in /etc/init.d/boot.local for that Hans Hans