From: Charles T Wilson -- Personal Account (ctwilson@rock.concert.net)
Date: 09/09/93


From: ctwilson@rock.concert.net (Charles T Wilson -- Personal Account)
Subject: Re: 2 IDE Drives ?
Date: 10 Sep 1993 02:33:05 GMT

In article <1993Sep8.224948.292@news.dfrf.nasa.gov> davisrj@arts.dfrf.nasa.gov (Roy Davis) writes:
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm just about ready to toss linux on my 386 (waiting for that new hard
>drive to get here). Looked at this group for the fist time today and saw
>something about 5-600 articles old about a problem with linux and 2 IDE
>hard drives. I was hoping to just add the new drive in as the second
>without changing the first so could somebody tell me exactly what the problem
>was. I think it had to do with using LILO to boot from the different
>partitions (something I hope to do).

I used two IDE's quite nicely until my recent upgrade to a scsi drive
on an isa bus motherboard with an onboard host. There might be some
kind of problem some VLB hosts, but I doubt it otherwise. It's probably
not a bad idea to have two drives of similar geometry, but I don't think
it's necessary.

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