Re: [cobalt-developers] Second IDE device on a Qube 3?

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Ed Halley wrote:
> There are two IDE cable headers inside the Qube 3, to match the two
> drive bays.  The single-drive setup uses the IDE header closest to the
> edge of the baseboard pcb, and Linux enumerates that as /dev/hda.
> 
> I tried a second drive in bay two, but this doesn't appear as /dev/hdb
> with a simple fdisk listing.  Is this a second IDE chain (so both drives
> should be considered solo on their chain), or is this the same IDE chain
> (requiring master/slave jumpers, which seems odd if the second bay was
> intended for software RAID)?
> 
> I don't want to use RAID, just interested in adding capacity for
> automated bz2 archive spooling.  Any pointers would be helpful.
> 

make the drives both Master. It will probably recognized as hdc, as in th PC
world b would be a cdreom

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Gerald Waugh