Re: on RAID1: is HDA+HDD okay? c: d:
On Tue, Aug 17 at 10:46PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote:
> > > lemme check to make sure i grok the recommendation -- HDA and
> > > HDB are primary and secondary on the first bus (C: and D: in
> > > windows parlance), and HDC and HDD are primary and secondary on
> > > the second bus (E: and F: in windows parlance).
> >
> > yup
>
> on a second thought .. nope ..
>
> if you partition hdc into hdc1, hdc2, hdc3, hdc5 ...
> those partitions will become C: D: E: F:
>
> and hdb will be G:
>
> ms is silly.. its sequential alphabets based on partitions
right. was just using the one-partition-per-disk windows
metaphor to be sure i grokked what's what. :)
(of course, you can assign any drive to just about anything...
but the original defaults are A:/B: floppy, C:/D: ide bus 0,
E:/F: ide bus 1 -- until, as you say, you partition something,
which windows folks seldom ever do.)
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