On Fri, 07 May 2004 05:00:09 -0400, Jesse Benton wrote:

> Lenerd and the rest,
> That tried to help me thanks. A complete reinstall worked. But it now
> calls it hdc3. Go figure? I now have two systems with the same hd and
> the same partions and both with windows on them. One is hda5 and the
> other hdc3? A home system any way. The only differences were a Intel
> mortherboard and a TYAN motherboard in the upgrade to fedora.

Sounds like on one system the hard drive is on the primary IDE channel and
on the other system the hard drive is on the secondary IDE controller.
Linux is very specific on where the IDE drives are;

hda = Master device on the primary IDE interface, hdb = Slave device on
the primary IDE interface, hdc = Master device on the secondary IDE
interface, hdd = Slave device on the secondary IDE interface, hde = Master
device on the third IDE interface, hdf = Slave device on the third IDE
interface and so on....


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