Re: Fedora and XP on 1 Disk

From: Aaron Gray (aarongray_at_DELETETHIS.aarongray.org)
Date: 04/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 14:54:04 +0100

> Umm. No. Every IDE controller can support two devices, a master and a
slave.
> The first controller runs hda (master) and hdb (slave). The second
> controller runs hdc (master) and hdd (slave).
>
> This particularly becomes fun when you install an IDE hot-swap bay and
have
> to keep switching jumpers around as you relocate drives.
>
> > The CD maybe on IDE0 and the HD on IDE1
>
> No one does this for a bunch of reasons involviing controlling boot
orders.
> In particular, if you put an active drive on IDE1 and later add another
> drive that happens to have an OS on it on IDE0, you will boot with the new
> drive instead of your old one. Or rather, you will *try* to boot with your
> new drive, which is unlikely to work.

Okay, thanks for putting me right :)

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