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08-05-2003, 07:59 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: REDHAT 8.0
Posts: 11
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Do 2 harddrives have to be Master/Slave?
I am about to install a Maxtor hard drive. I've read at one site that
Maxtor drives do not like to share with other hard drives on the same cable. Can I put the new drive as secondary master and still dual boot?
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08-05-2003, 08:08 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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oh yeah that'll be ok, i've never had probelms with maxtor drives complaining, just make sure you set the jumpers correctly.
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08-05-2003, 08:19 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: REDHAT 8.0
Posts: 11
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Do you mean it is OK to do Master/Slave or that it is OK to put new drive on secondary Master.
Randy
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08-05-2003, 08:28 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Sparta, NC USA
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
Posts: 5,141
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It should work either way.
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08-05-2003, 08:28 AM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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well both, you should have no reason to have any trouble... put it on secondary slave if you want, should still boot fine.
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08-05-2003, 10:50 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: gentoo
Posts: 12
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Can put on hd and a cd on one and the other hd on the other
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08-05-2003, 11:00 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Malaysia
Distribution: Slackware, LFS, CentOS
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You can do almost anything u like regarding Master/Slave settings for Hard Disks.
However, from my experience it is highly UNrecommended that you set a Hard Disk to be a slave to a CD/DVD-ROM/R/RW.
The performance of the disk will be somewhat under par.
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08-05-2003, 11:41 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
Distribution: Arch Linux
Posts: 533
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I always do things this way:
hda - primary master hard drive
hdb - primary slave hard drive (if a second hd is there)
hdc - cd/dvdrom
hdd - cd burner (would be hdc if no cd/dvd rom is present)
yes, it can be done other ways, but I have found this way best. I always use that configuration when building computers or upgrading my own and it works flawlessly.
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08-06-2003, 12:48 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: REDHAT 8.0
Posts: 11
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I ended up with Linux=PrimaryMaster, CD Rom=Primary Slave,
Windows=Secondary Master. However Linux isn't finding Windows as yet. I can't put my hard drives close enough to connect them together as Master/Slave. Linux is working fine however. I'm going exploring in the forums now.
Thank You
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08-06-2003, 12:59 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Sparta, NC USA
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
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Windows should be on /dev/hdc1 then.
You will have to re-install grub and put the stanza for windows in your /boot/grub/grub.conf file.
Installing a bootloader
Multiboot with GRUB Mini-HOWTO
Last edited by fancypiper; 08-06-2003 at 01:01 PM.
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08-06-2003, 01:27 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: VA
Distribution: Slack 10.1
Posts: 2,194
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Woudn't putting the two hard drives on Primary slow things down a bit?
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08-06-2003, 01:29 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: REDHAT 8.0
Posts: 11
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Widows is on hdc1
I tried something that I read in the forums.
Installed Widows on primary hard drive then moved it to secondary master. Then put new hard drive as primary master and installed linux. Did I mess up there?
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08-06-2003, 02:01 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Scotland
Distribution: Slackware, RedHat, Debian
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You haven't messed up. Just install grubon the MBR of hda then change grub.conf to use hdc1 to chainload boot windows.
Quote:
Originally posted by yowwww
I always do things this way:
hda - primary master hard drive
hdb - primary slave hard drive (if a second hd is there)
hdc - cd/dvdrom
hdd - cd burner (would be hdc if no cd/dvd rom is present)
yes, it can be done other ways, but I have found this way best. I always use that configuration when building computers or upgrading my own and it works flawlessly.
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This is ok but if you put your cdrw and cdrom on different cables then you will get a fater throughput when copying CDs.
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08-06-2003, 06:08 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Los Gatos, CA
Distribution: boring redhat 9
Posts: 163
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't throwing a CDrom/DVD/burner on the same cable as a hard drive cause the whole cable to run at DMA33 instead of 66/100/133 ? For that reason alone I keep my cd drives on the secondary chain.
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08-07-2003, 10:51 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: REDHAT 8.0
Posts: 11
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Thank You
acid_kewpie,
fancypiper,
Treat84,
Azmeen,
yowwww,
and
david_ross
you have all been a help.
However, david_ross, I can't figure out how to get to into grub.conf.
And, fancypiper, I don't have any idea on how to reinstall grub.
The CDs did everything pretty much automatically.They came with a LINUX for DUMMIES book and is referred to as a publishers edition.Also the boot floppy made during installation is no good,
I've tried using a command line applet in Linux but nothing happens.
I appreciate your help and patience.
RAL
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