IDE is not hot-swapable. you need sata<br clear="all">Jacob Mansfield<br>Programmer<br><br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 11 October 2010 11:27, Barry Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bdrake@crosswire.org">bdrake@crosswire.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Here's an interesting one for you. I have a PC with a motherboard that<br>has 6xSATA ports and one IDE port. I've put two SATA drives in plus an<br>
IDE DVD-R drive and an IDE drive caddy (as slave and master) so I can<br>swap storage drives between three desktop pcs.<br><br>One of the SATA drives is Windows 2000. When I boot this, it finds and<br>mounts all drives with no problem.<br>
<br>Ubuntu 10.10 finds all the drives OK but refuses to mount the IDE hard<br>drive saying it already has a drive mounted at the same mount point.<br>The only way I can mount the IDE drive is to put a line in /etc/fstab<br>
that tells it to mount UUID=[UUID of the drive I'm going to use]. This<br>allows it to work just fine, but is a bit of a pain, as I have to<br>edit /etc/fstab before I re-boot with a different drive. If it finds<br>
the wrong drive, ubuntu hangs during the boot when it tries to mount the<br>drive that has gone!<br><br>Currently I have all the drives I want to swap (four in number)<br>in /etc/fstab so I comment out the ones that aren't there.<br>
<br>Any thoughts?<br><br>Regards, Barry Drake.<br>--<br>Sent from my Dell Netbook using Ubuntu - the window-free environment<br>that gives me real fresh air.<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
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