(fwd) Re: Help: Easy Questions
Ian Comley writes:
>
> I am planning to install a second hard disk on my machine and install Linux on
> that. I wondered if some bored individuals could answer a couple of simple
> questions:
>
> Is installing a second hard drive easy - ie. do I just need to buy a new drive
> and no other hardware, or is there something else involved?
I assume your talking about IDE drives. Well you need an IDE cable with
2 connectors obviously, and the drive you buy needs to be able to
be master or slave to the other drive, this doesn't always work
with some drives. IDE is such a wonderful "standard" ain't it ;)
Do NOT install a Conner disk as slave. Last time one of my clients
did that it cost him BIG time. [I never saw such bizarre filesystem
corruption -- and neither did e2fsck :( ]
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