[H-GEN] Hard Drive Problems

[Frank Brand]

James McPherson wrote:
> 
If I was in this situation I would get a separate EIDE card and disable
the on board interface. In my experience you can not disable just the
primary channel. You either disable the whole interface or not. I doubt
that the secondary will automagically become the primary.

Conor, tho', is also pulling one of the HDD's out for Linux and that was
the info I was trying to get, I would tend to leave the Win HDD in and
possibly not mount it or mount it read only and boot Linux off a floppy
which should leave the Win box protected and in its virginal, pristine
condition (is virginal, pristine a redundancy?). Craig Eldershaw asked
the same question but got no response.

I also wonder whether the ACER CD is fully ATAPI compliant. I have heard
rumours of other ppl having some probs with ACER CD's but I do not know
if this is really true.

> but of course it's all moot if your primary ide channel decides to die on
> you. :( grrrrr. hopefully I won't need to get a new motherboard though. Does
> anybody know if disabling an onboard primary channel will turn the onboard
> physically secondary channel into an onboard primary? Or if disabling an
> onboard primary then adding a new channel via plugin card will screw things up?
> 
> James C. mcPherson

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