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Re: Trouble With Secondary IDE



On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Oded Benyovitch wrote:

> Hi,
> I have A pentium board with an on-board E-IDE controler.
> However when connect my linux disk to the secondary controler
> I can't seem to find the device for linux ...
> All my Linux can see is the primery disk (hda,hdb etc.)
> Does anyone know the device name or how can I access my secodary 
> controler.
> 
that depends on how it is configured... if you have two channels on the 
same controller, or you have 1 ISA and one PCI channel... then you may 
look for them as /dev/hd1a - /dev/hd1d


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