Wahoo!!!! 1 for me and, well, 20 million for slug...
Glen
> Thanks glen, that's precisely what I was looking for (etc/fstab).
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russell Hires" <rhires@earthlink.net>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 10:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: "My" Dead Hard drive
>
> > 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
> >
> > -----------------------
> > I don't care if you're going nowhere,
> > Just take good care of the world.
> > -- Depeche Mode
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > >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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