Re: IDE Port

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:01:58PM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote:
> I have an ASUS A7V mobo with 2 normal IDE ports (primary/secondary) and
> 1 ATA-100 port. My hard drives are connected to the ATA-100 port and are
> recognized as HDE1 and HDF1. Does that sound correct?
> 
> primary/master = hda1
> primary/slave = hdb1
> secondary/master = hdc1
> secondary/slave = hdd1
> 
> ATA-100/master = hde1?
> ATA-100/slave = hdf1?

I think so, but leave off the numerals, e.g.

primary/master = hda
primary/slave = hdb

etc.

Only the partitions on the drives are numbered.  The drives,
themselves, don't have numbers.

Cheers,
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