There are 2 setups that use more than one hard drive, the master/slave system, and the system that Compaq uses--I don't remember its name, but it depends on which plug you use, IIRC, like in floppies. They gave me a Compaq at work, a couple of years ago, and I was never able to hook up 2 hard drives and a CD rom to this miserable piece of crap. One hd, one cd, or 2 hd's, but not both. I wanted to put Linux on the second hd, but of course, IT was not helpful in this regard. I hope your machine is not a Compaq, or if you haven't had it very long, exchange it for something else. Good luck! --doug At 18:26 03/21/2004 -0500, Dr. David M. Colburn wrote:
I have just powered up a newly assembled ATX box with a cleanly formatted and SUSE 9 Pro loaded 20g Quantum Fireball Plus LM20.5 HDD as Master and a much-used Maxtor 6E040l0 40g HDD as Slave.
The Quantum is seen in YaST as hda1, etc., the Maxtor hdb1, etc.
I have tried to set up a desktop icon for the Maxtor but get an "in use" error.
I have tried to look at the Maxtor from Konq to no avail.
I do notice that the Grub device map only shows hd0 and fd0 but fail to understand why YaST would see both HDD's even though Grub appears to see only one (not to mention that the Grub device map fails to list either the CD reader or the cdrw device.
Can someone explain these anomalies, and the solution to getting Konq to see my second HDD, please?
I could reverse the cables and the jumpers on the two HDD's and see what happens but I really should be able to see them in either order and access the Maxtor from SuSE 9 Pro booted off the Quantum.
Given that the Quantum is a clean load of SuSE 9 Pro and the Maxtor was set up on an older box I think that the Quantum should be my Master HDD.
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