Re: [Sheflug] Drive detection

["Ian W. Wright" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Simon - light is now beginning to dawn......dohhhh! Trust me to be
able to make the simplest of things more than complex! I'm just off to boot
up the old Linux machine now and try it all out... pip, pip.........

Best wishes,
Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield, UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Brown" <xxxxx [at] cliffestones.demon.co.uk>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Drive detection


> Ian,
>
> I'd wait for the experts to correct me on this one, but I think you're
> making this far too complicated for yourself. You've got the standard
> 4 ide devices set up as follows:
>
> /dev/hda Hardisk 1st IDE bus Primary
> /dev/hdb CDROM 1st IDE bus Slave
> /dev/hdc Hardisk 2nd IDE bus Primary
> /dev/hdd CDROM 2nd IDE bus Slave
>
> You currently have a symlink /dev/cdrom pointing at /dev/hdb
>
> It's just a symlink, not anything magical so that software has an easy
> way of finding the cdrom drive. So if you want to use the other drive
> as the primary cd player, change the symlink, so that it points to the
> new drive.
>
> So as far as fstab is concerned, try something like this.
> change /dev/cdrom so that it points at the main drive
> create /dev/cdrom1 so that is points at the other drive.
> (by create I mean:"ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom1"
>


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