On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote:
Hi folks,
I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to
push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0
motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE
drivers. This is what I have currently:
hda Actual hard drive OS on this
hdb Actual hard drive Not in use
hdc Actual hard drive home partition
hdd DVD burner Duh! It's a burner.
sda Actual hard drive connected through a SATA PCI card. Misc stuff.
So, hda has the Gentoo OS on it and hdc is my /hone directory. I have
videos, mp3's and various other data on sda. Currently hdb is not being
used, since for those who keep up with my threads would know, it is the
one that is terribly slow. Something along the lines of 10Mbs/sec or
something of that nature. It's just hard to get out of the case right
now and I can't get to it with a hammer either. :/
You can at least disconnect it then. Right now all it does and eat
power, heat the case and make noise :-/
My theory is something like this: hda will become sda; hdb will become
sdb; hdc will become sdc; hdd will become sdd; and sda will become sde.
Would that be a logical expectation?
I'd say sda will stay as is, hda will become sdb, and so forth.
Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That way, you
won't be able to blow anything up and can boot from it in order to
change your /etc/fstab and grub conf.
