Re: [SLUG] multiple hard drives

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Aug 14 2005 - 13:04:40 EDT


On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, michael hast wrote:

> I have never run more than one hard drive in a machine at a time. Is it
> really as simple as changing the jumper settings on the drives to "master"
> and "slave",

Yes.

> installing

You mean physically mounting the hardware in the machine? Yes.

> and good to go? Should I plan on reinstalling my distro at the same time,

Strictly speaking, no need, but you can just in case there's some twiddling
it does.

> and is there anything else I will need to do? Thanks, Michael

Umm, be prepared for its extra power drain (=heat production) and noise.
Make a mount point and an entry in /etc/fstab if it's statically mounted.
Consider different partitioning schemes and filesystems.

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