accessys
July 14th, 2009, 02:59 PM
just did a major upgrade to my computer, have been using linux about 10 years so I have checked all the usual places.
was running SUSE 10.0 on old box and bought
new dual core CPU
new ASUS mother board
new Seagate 1tb hard drive
loaded ubuntu 9.04 with no major hassles BUT what I have done in the past when I up graded is use the new hard drive as master and the old one as a "Slave" so I have access to all my older data (yes the critical stuff is backed up on a removeable hard drive that can be accessed) but there is a lot of "Stuff" that would be usefull to just copy over or just get to it if I need it.
in any case the new harddrive is a SATA drive and loads and mounts in the correct location.
the old hard drive is an IDE and it is cabled with a CD drive that is found and works fine (in fact loaded ubuntu from that drive)
normally in the past I would just go into terminal in root and use
mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hdb2 and it would mount fine and access worked
used sudo to do the same but keep getting "not found" etc.
various Dir and searches etc can't find that hard drive (yes the setting on the back is set for "slave")
and on boot the BIOS does not seem to find it either.
not critical but sure would be convienent if I could access the slave hard drive.
thanks
Bob
was running SUSE 10.0 on old box and bought
new dual core CPU
new ASUS mother board
new Seagate 1tb hard drive
loaded ubuntu 9.04 with no major hassles BUT what I have done in the past when I up graded is use the new hard drive as master and the old one as a "Slave" so I have access to all my older data (yes the critical stuff is backed up on a removeable hard drive that can be accessed) but there is a lot of "Stuff" that would be usefull to just copy over or just get to it if I need it.
in any case the new harddrive is a SATA drive and loads and mounts in the correct location.
the old hard drive is an IDE and it is cabled with a CD drive that is found and works fine (in fact loaded ubuntu from that drive)
normally in the past I would just go into terminal in root and use
mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hdb2 and it would mount fine and access worked
used sudo to do the same but keep getting "not found" etc.
various Dir and searches etc can't find that hard drive (yes the setting on the back is set for "slave")
and on boot the BIOS does not seem to find it either.
not critical but sure would be convienent if I could access the slave hard drive.
thanks
Bob