Re: Quest: Moving IDE drives between machines

2012-11-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
IIUC it's a Linux machine, no Windows installed? The OP just experienced issues with MS-DOS in the past. If there was only one IDE HDD in the old machine, aka hda and only this drive should be mounted to the new machine, what ever fstab entries there are, they will be ok for the new machine too. S

Re: Quest: Moving IDE drives between machines

2012-11-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:06:51 -0800 > Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: >> > Greetings: >> > >> > One of my Linux machines has crashed and root drive or IDE >> > controller is bad. >> > >> > Can I unplug a

Re: Quest: Moving IDE drives between machines

2012-11-30 Thread Joe
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:06:51 -0800 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > One of my Linux machines has crashed and root drive or IDE > > controller is bad. > > > > Can I unplug an IDE drive and plug it into another machine? > > I have

Re: Quest: Moving IDE drives between machines

2012-11-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 12:06 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > * I have not tested this. Not responsible if it lets the magic smoke > out of your computer :-) No exciting explosion, fire and smoke will happen. I can't speak for Windows, but Linux will work or it will not work. If it won't work, then re

Re: Quest: Moving IDE drives between machines

2012-11-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 12:55 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings: > > One of my Linux machines has crashed and root drive or IDE > controller is bad. > > Can I unplug an IDE drive and plug it into another machine? > I have a vague recollection that this caused problems back > when I was running

Re: Quest: Moving IDE drives between machines

2012-11-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/11/12 01:55 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings: One of my Linux machines has crashed and root drive or IDE controller is bad. Can I unplug an IDE drive and plug it into another machine? I have a vague recollection that this caused problems back when I was running MS/DOS, but not sure. Is i

Re: Quest: Moving IDE drives between machines

2012-11-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings: > > One of my Linux machines has crashed and root drive or IDE > controller is bad. > > Can I unplug an IDE drive and plug it into another machine? > I have a vague recollection that this caused problems back > when I was running M

Quest: Moving IDE drives between machines

2012-11-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings: One of my Linux machines has crashed and root drive or IDE controller is bad. Can I unplug an IDE drive and plug it into another machine? I have a vague recollection that this caused problems back when I was running MS/DOS, but not sure. Is it OK today? Thanks for any help! Dennis