mounting a new harddisk

[kent E.]

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:12, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Do, den 22.01.2004 schrieb kent E. um 02:05:
> > hello to all.... 
> > 
> > i mount a new slave hard disk with fat32 format ... i decided to use
> > this kind of fileFormat so that i could use it in other workstations
> > running M$..
> > 
> > now as i noticed .. my pc became a little bit slower than before so i
> > just edited my /etc/fstab and remove the newly added line .. and
> > everything is now back to normal...
> > 
> > is there any workaround in this kind of situation?
> > 
> > tia
> 
> Put the second harddisk on the second IDE controller as master and not
> as slave on the primary controller. 

it is already master on the second IDE contrlr and also have the CDROM
on the slave side ... i only have 1 master IDE on the primary conroller

> Maybe that will help, especially
> when the additional disk is an old one with slow transfer rates / IDE
> bus capability.

when i mounted them it looks like this... 
==========
/dev/hdc5 on /mnt/hddata type vfat (rw)
/dev/hdc3 on /mnt/hdinstallers type vfat (rw)
==========

but if i will access the /mnt/hddata ... its read only .. but the
/mnt/hdinstallers ... i can reae/write ...




> 
> Alexander
> 
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