[techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.

[Lothan]

> From: techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org
> [mailto:techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org]On Behalf Of Darren
> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 9:28 PM
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 jenn at simegen.com wrote:
>
> >The Cat In The Hat wrote:
> >>
> >> The CD-Rom is the secondary slave because of where it is on
> the cable.  You want your new hard drive to be the primary slave
> in the system. You do not want to move you CD-Rom to the Primary
> slave position.  The position it is currently in is actually the
> best for future upgrades and additions of hard drives.
> >
> >
> >Actually, to my knowledge the location on the cable is irrelevent. The
> >Cat is correct in saying it's a hardware issue, though. (it's not Linux,
> >it's the way EISA PCs are built.)
>
> Location on the cable can be relevant, if the jumpers on one or both
> drives is set to "cable select", so that you theoretically don't have to
> worry about where on the chain the drive is located. It's a setting that
> caused me big long headaches the first time I installed a second HD.
> Ironically, I assume it's an option intended to make drive installation
> easier.

If what I understand is correct, the cable select option requires a special
cable that has the master/slave pins removed as appropriate.