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[Brett G. Monroe]

Of course, all my drives are identical. :)

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On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Chris Hunter wrote:

> 
> check /var/log/dmesg. It should tell you based on the drive type, ala:
> 
> hda: WDC WD64AA, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: ASUS CD-S400/A, ATAPI CDROM drive
> 
> This doesn't help if all the drives are identical though.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Bradley Bell wrote:
> 
> > hda and hdb are on the primary interface, hdc and hdd are on the secondary
> > interface.  So hdc is the one on a ribbon cable all by itself - though you
> > said you have four devices - is hdd your cdrom?
> > where the drive is on the ribbon cable makes no difference, the jumpers on
> > the drive determine whether it is "master" or "slave"
> > hda - primary master
> > hdb - primary slave
> > hdc - secondary master
> > hdd - secondary slave
> > 
> > -brad
> > 
> > On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Brett G. Monroe wrote:
> > 
> > > Hey, I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I have three ata hard
> > > drives; hda, hdb, and hdc.  I want to pull hdc but I'm not sure which
> > > physical hd it is.  I know with scsi, I can just check the scsi id, but,
> > > well, this ain't scsi.  I assume I have a duel ata bus (as I have 4 devices
> > > on it).  Should I just play follow the ribbon (with hda and hdc plugged
> > > strait into the motherboard with hdb and hdd coming off of hda nd
> > > hdc)?  Thanks.
> > > 
> > >  )  |o)____               ) Dept. Microbiology		 )
> > > (   |0)re||  |\/|        (  HS K443B     616-4285	(
> > >  )           |  |onroe    ) bmonroe at u.washington.edu	 )
> > > (							(
> > >  )  No conclusions about what we ought to do can validly )
> > > (   be drawn from a description of what most people in  (
> > >  )  our society think we ought to do.	-Peter Singer	 )
> > > 
> > 
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