On 07/11/05, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
IDE1 Master -> /dev/hda IDE1 Slave -> /dev/hdb
I would prefer to use IDE0 for the first and IDE1 for the second, but that's just me :D
(and most motherboard manufacturer) ;)
In Windows, on the other hand, it's all schizophrenia.
Um, not quite. It's not clear to the beginner, but it's not quite as bad as you make out.
You get your new machine with one nice hard drive as IDE1 Master, partition the drive into 3, say, and install Windows. You then get "drives" C:, D:, and E:. Then, later, you expand and install a second hard drive as IDE1 Slave. Windows now assigns this to Drive D:, pushing up your previous partitions to be E: and F:, and the 2nd partition you've made on your new drive is called G:. So you have
That entirely depends on how you partition your disks. At boot Windows looks for the first bootable primary partition on the first disk. It labels that C:, then moves on to other disks and does the same. So D: will only be on the second disk (in your scenario) if you make it a primary partition. If you created it as an extended partition on the second disk you'd get C:, D:, E: on your first disk as you'd expect, and F: on the second (new) disk.
Cheers, Al.