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Re: New drive, problems with old drive



On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 15:21 -0500, Scott Mohnkern wrote:
> Critical info:
> 
> Debian with 2.22 Kernel
> I386 infrastructure
> 2 120 GB hard drives

Out of curiosity: why install Woody, when you could install
Sarge?

> 
> We were having problems with the old drive, to the point it was getting  
> memory errors on boot.  We installed a new drive in, and put the old drive  
> as master.
> 
> Installed Debian on the new drive, no problems, and during the  
> partitioning process, it showed both drives (though I didn't partition the  
> old drive,  because I didn't want to erase it, so I could recover data)
> 
> After complete install, the new drive shows up as expected, the old drive  
> doesn't, and isn't in fstab.  cfdisk only shows the one drive.
> 
> Any ideas?

Maybe the hidden drive has it's master/slave jumpers wrong?

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