Editing hdparm.conf

wallijonn ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Fri Jan 21 07:00:47 UTC 2005


Le grand pinguin Wrote: 
> No, no, NOOOO! The second drive on the first IDE controller is
> /dev/hdb!
> First drive on second controller would be /dev/hdc, second drive on
> second
> controller /dev/hdd. The schema is as follows:
> 
> hd   [a...n] [1...n]
> 
> ^     ^        ^
> |     |        |
> |     |        *----- Partition (or empty for the "raw" disk)
> |     |   
> |     *------ Device/Controller (in pairs, a/b for the first, c/d for
> the 
> |             second etc. controller).
> |
> *----- Type of device: hd for IDE, sd for SCSI etc.
> 

Okay, I was asleep at the switch. :D You're right and I was wrong.

ayam Wrote: 
> when I run dmesg I still get /dev/hdb as being UDMA33
You may need to run the Quantum utility from floppy to change the udma
to 66.


-- 
wallijonn




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