Hmmm...well, I think that perhaps your drive is the one that had /etc or
/usr or /root? Or something important like that? Whether it's primary or
secondary shouldn't matter. This is also the perfect time to use that
boot/rescue floppy that's been gathering dust...OTOH, perhaps now is the
time for the boot CD?
HTH
Russell
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I don't care if you're going nowhere,
Just take good care of the world.
-- Depeche Mode
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>From: Glen Canaday <tuck@acer-access.com>
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: "My" Dead Hard drive
>Date: Fri, May 4, 2001, 22:25
>
> I don't know about using an IDE tape drive, but to 'remove' a partition only
> takes editing the drive's lines /etc/fstab out.
>
> Glen
>
> On Friday 04 May 2001 20:14, you wrote:
>> Two questions.
>> 1) I recently had a old hard drive fail (a slave on the secondary ide
>> channel) that I was only using to learn how to add a w95-fat32 disk, give
>> it a mount point and share it via samba. No problem there. However, the
>> drive failed. When I removed it. My Linux box would not boot normally,
>> but rather to a repair mode. I had to dig out of box a another old disk,
>> configure and format a partition. I was unable to configure linux properly
>> after the removal of the hard drive. How does one configure linux to
>> remove a drive.
>> /dev/hda - HD, Master on primary channel
>> /dev/hdb - CD, slave on primary channel
>> /dev/hdc - Tape, Master on secondary channel
>> /dev/hdd - HD, slave on secondary channel
>>
>> 2) I can't seem to utilize this IDE tape drive. What's the process for
>> mounting and writing to an IDE tape.
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