dual-boot install with SATA + IDE drives

From: Murray Eisenberg (murray_at_math.umass.edu)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:07:13 GMT

I'm building a new PC with an Intel 875P chipset that will have:

  -a pair of SATA drives (either RAID 0 or RAID 1, not sure yet!) on
which Windows XP will be installed as the primary OS;

  - a parallel IDE drive on which I'll install RedHat 9 (for now, and
Fedora Core, probably, later) in a dual-boot configuration, with grub as
master boot loader; this will be master on the 1st IDE channel;

  - a CD-RW and a DVD+/-RW on two of the other IDE locations--either one
as slave on the 1st IDE channel and the other as master on the 2nd IDE
channel, or else the pair onthe 2nd IDE channel.

(Eventually, I may add another IDE hard drive, or replace the IDE HD by
another array of SATA drives.)

Questions:

1. How are the various SATA and IDE devices named for Linux?

2. Any particular problem with this setup for dual-boot? Grub will be
installed to the MBR on the SATA array, with grub.conf going into the
grub subdirectory of a separate /boot partition on the parallel IDE drive.

(If you reply, please do NOT refer me the the now-ancient dual-boot
Mini-HOWTOs and the like. I already read those things a long time ago.
  And please do NOT tell me to chuck Windows and do Linux only; that's
just not an option given the applications I run.) 

-- 
Murray Eisenberg                     murray@math.umass.edu
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower      phone 413 549-1020 (H)
University of Massachusetts                413 545-2859 (W)
710 North Pleasant Street            fax   413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Install Sata drivers
    ... >>> beacause it already includes all the required sata, raid, etc drivers. ... >>the purposes of allowing WinXP to install without pressing F6. ... > connected via IDE -- i.e., there's no necessity for these drives to ...
    (alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus)
  • Re: ide disk not found on SATA port
    ... So, he bought a IDE ... Although - to be truthful - if the motherboard is not recognizing the ... Install your brother's present PATA HDD in a USB external hard drive ... Check his motherboard user's guide to see if it's necessary to install ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: DVD-ROM and CD-RW not working after upgrade
    ... boot off your XP CD, choose to format NTFS, and install Windows ... >>8/4/32A CD-RW jumpered slave on my secondary IDE. ... >>and I was going to replace it with an Artec 16X DVD-ROM ... My bios detects all drives ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
  • Re: Install Sata drivers
    ... >> beacause it already includes all the required sata, raid, etc drivers. ... >the purposes of allowing WinXP to install without pressing F6. ... connected via IDE -- i.e., there's no necessity for these drives to ...
    (alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus)
  • will FC2 help me bypass install failure?
    ... I recently put it together out of a 13 GB IDE ... install RedHat 7.3, ... nobody tried using a bootable SCSI drive. ... IDE partition. ...
    (Fedora)