remove a hard drive
 

Hi,

I have 3 Hard Drives on my computer. There is hda, hdb, and hdc. I would like to remove one of these - hdb.

Currently my main operating system (Mandrake) resides on hdc. In my Bios settings hdc does not show up as a bootable drive, so I use either hda or hdb for the bootloader.

Now, if I remove hdb, I am just worried that hdc will be renamed or become otherwise unbootable. Is this the case? When you remove hdb, does hdc remain named 'hdc' as regards the bootloader on hda.

Many thanks for any help before I completely mess up my system.

The names of the drives are according to the controllers they're attached to:

/dev/hda = master drive, primary controller
/dev/hdb = slave drive, primary controller
/dev/hdc = master drive, secondary controller
/dev/hdd = slave drive, secondary controller

If you don't move the drive currently located at /dev/hdc it's name will not change
because you remove /dev/hdb.

As for your bootloader, so long as you leave it on /dev/hda you should be fine.