Linux on IDE dual-boot with Windows on SATA RAID 1 array: device names?

From: Murray Eisenberg (murray_at_math.umass.edu)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 04:01:45 GMT

(A previous posting of mine led to some responses that got way off
track, so let me try again...)

Briefly, on an Intelx86 PC that I'm building that has the Intel 875P
chipset's built-in SATA support, to Linux:

(a) Are the (first) pair of SATA drives identified as IDE drives, hda,
hdb if they are NOT installed with RAID? If they are installed as a
RAID 1 array?

(b) In each case above, is then the first ordinary (parallel) IDE device
-- the master on the 1st IDE channel -- identified as hdc? (And etc.
for additional IDE devices?)

The new sysetm is going to be a dual-boot system, with the MBR and
Windows XP (of necessity my primary OS) installed on that SATA array and
RedHat 9 (and later either Fedora or RH Enterprise Desktop) on a
parallel IDE drive.

In particular, I'd like to transport an existing RedHat 9 installation
on an IDE drive to this new computer, and that's what will go in as the
master on the 1st ordinary IDE channel.

So I need to know whether and how I need to edit /etc/fstab and
/boot/grub/grub.conf before (presumably) taking the drive from my old
system and inserting it in the new system.

I want the SATA drive or RAID 1 drive array to contain the MBR, where
grub will be installed.

(c) Are there some special difficulties or impossibilities I'm going to
have with this setup on the new PC?

Note that I am NOT asking whether Linux itself can be installed on SATA
drives! (Although eventually I'll undoubtedly move to a 2nd SATA array
for Linux.)

Your help will be much appreciated. 

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