Re: dselect-help!!!!!!!

[Kent West <kent.west@infotech.acu.edu>]

Thanks for the correction. Now it rings a bell.

At 10:04 AM 12/10/1998 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote:
>
>> 
>> I'm not very well-versed with the use of CDs on Linux yet, but I believe it
>> would be /dev/hdb1 (b = second controller, 1 = first drive on that 
>controller).
>
>Not quite.
>
>/dev/hda = master drive on primary controller
>/dev/hdb = slave drive on primary controller
>/dev/hdc = master drive on secondary controller
>/dev/hdd = slave drive on secondary controller
>
>What he should use is /dev/hdc.  /dev/hdb1 is the first partition on the
>slave drive on the primary controller.
>
>Bob
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