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

[Chris Johnson <cj.johnson@xxxxxxx>]

    As people have noted, Linux allocates two ide drives per
    chain, just in case the system is ever fully populated.
    This is especially entertaining on our XTR system since
    the on-board South Bridge has two chains that we don't
    use.  This makes the removable drives e, g, i, and k.

    As an obligatary piece of useful data, one reason we
    rely on the Master disk on each chain is that IDE has
    very bad failure characteristics for Raid volumes that
    include Slave units. (If a Master fails, the slave can
    get "promoted", with odd side effects).

    cj*