Fwd: Re: 3rd ide master prob

[James Takac]

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 12:54:49 Les Gray wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 July 2007 11:01:43 James Takac wrote:
> > /dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> >
> > think I should try hdc instead of hda?
>
> Hi James,
>
> how many IDE channels does your machine have? To me, '3rd IDE master'
> sounds like 'master drive on the third IDE channel', which would actually
> make it /dev/hde.
>
> But if you (more likely) have 2 IDE channels, primary and secondary, and
> your CD/DVD drive is third drive out of a possible 4 (ie. secondary IDE
> master), then you should change your /etc/fstab to make it /dev/hdc.
>
> Les

Hi Les

Well, the bios lists it as 3rd ide master so I'd assume it to be 3 ide 
channels. In fact looking at the harware info seems to confirm this via 
vista's device manager (the dloading software at moment)

U've given me some food 4 thought and something I can try then

James