Fwd: Re: 3rd ide master prob

James Takac p3nndrag0n at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 14:51:57 BST 2007


On Tuesday 31 July 2007 13:09:43 David Collins wrote:
> James,
>
> Yeah, I agree with Les.
>
> Maybe also send us your devices that contain 'sd' or 'hd' in their name.
> ie. output from the command -
>       ls /dev | egrep '(hd)|(sd)'
>
> Please let us know what the solution is when your find it. :)
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>
>
>
>
>              Les Gray
>              <lgray at bigpond.ne
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> 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
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K, finally home from work. did what u asked and got

sda
sda1
sda2
sda3
sda4
sda5
ttysd

I'm guessing one of those is the cd/dvd drive. Spose can try each to see what 
I get





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