From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 9:20:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gallagher.chicago.il.us (el01-24-131-151-85.ce.mediaone.net [24.131.151.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E339937BCBB for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 09:20:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from burke@gallagher.chicago.il.us) Received: from fatman2k (fatman2.burke.org [192.168.0.2]) by gallagher.chicago.il.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA55237; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:19:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from burke@gallagher.chicago.il.us) Message-ID: <006a01bf8859$43ee2290$0200a8c0@fatman2k> From: "Burke Gallagher" To: "Kevin Havener" , "Mark J Tomko" Cc: References: <20000307110100.A371@prime.cs.ohiou.edu> <38C5313D.3C80C8F0@afccc.af.mil> Subject: Re: two hard drives, adding OS's Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:19:15 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG another way to solve this problem is to use removable drive bays. They cost about $15 US. KWI makes one called "Mobile Rack" http://www.kingwin.com/rack-ide.htm that I use. You just set all the drives you want to swap the same, in my case that is primary master, my CD-ROM is the secondary master. Then power down insert the drive you want to use and boot up. The best part is that while you are experimenting with a new OS you can not damage your old system (unless you place it on a magnet) because it is not connected. This is also great for other family members (wives and children have their own drives) it has saved me much martial strife, now my wife is not subjected to an always changing configuration, and I am not subject to her idiosyncrasies. burke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Havener" To: "Mark J Tomko" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 10:41 AM Subject: Re: two hard drives, adding OS's > I just put mine on the primary slave (I think, I have faulty memory, > though). Yes, I believe thats it, on OS or another sees it as hdc. I > have both a Linux and a FreeBSD installation on it. They both boot just > fine. > > I think my rationale was that (or so I heard) read/write from channel to > channel are faster than master to slave on the same IDE channel. > Reasoning that since I do most all of my OS installs from CDROM I wanted > to be able to do it slightly faster. So until I get another hard drive, > my CDROM is alone on the secondary IDE channel. This could all be just > hogwash, though. > > YMMV > Kevin > > Mark J Tomko wrote: > > > > I've recently bought another hard drive, which I plan to use to play > > around with FreeBSD 4.0 or Linux or HURD. I have an existing hard drive > > which is the primary master drive. My ATAPI CDROM is currently my > > secondary master drive. Because I need to be able to boot off of the > > new hard drive, does it have to be a master drive? How should I arrange > > them? > > > > Mark > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message