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Re: removing extra hard drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Tue Feb 15 14:14:57 2000
To: Karl Kowallis <kowallis@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: nathanw@MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Date: 15 Feb 2000 14:14:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: Karl Kowallis's message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:58:22 EST"
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<kowallis@MIT.EDU> (Karl Kowallis) writes:
> I have a NetBSD machine with 3 installed hard drives.
>
> 4 Gb Primary Master
> 2 Gb Secondary Master
> 560 Mb Secondary Slave
>
> All are IDE. The secondary drives are not being used as part of NetBSD and are
> not mounted anywhere and I wanted to remove them so I can use them in another
> machine. If I try and simply disconnect them the computer won't boot. Do I
> need to do something to the kernal in order to boot without the disks?
You shouldn't need to do anything to the kernel. How far does the boot
process get after you remove the drives?
You might need to reconfigure the primary master to not be a master if
there isn't a slave drive on the same IDE cable (IDE master/slave bits
only make sense when there is more than one disk; there is a third
setting for use when the drive is by itself).
>
> Here is a listing of /dev and the mount information, which is all based on the
> default Athena setup.
This agrees with what you said; the secondary disks aren't being
used.
(For future reference, the listing of /dev isn't very useful, but the
kernel boot messages, as displayed by the "dmesg" command, would be
useful additional information).
- Nathan
