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Hi
Regarding identifying if you hard disk is hda or hdab, this is basically
master is hda slave is hdb
I think this assumes they are connected to primary ide connector, not sure
if they are connected to secondary, not really looked as my cd devices are
there and they are mounted under /dev/cdrom anyway.
To try and answer you question
there are a number of tools which give information on this, I am using Suse
8, with kde3. So YMMV here
From hereone K refers to the Kmenu, i have put menu options to run programs
in CAPS, the rest are menu directories, in small letters.
K-Preferences-information-PARTITIONS
gives informaton on mount points etc - which should help with the above,
you can also get to this via control center
K-Control Center- Information - PARTITIONS
** in addition you have - **
K-suse-system-configuration-IDE DEVICE TOOL -
root only ( it may let you run as normal user but ask for root password)
this shows lots of useful low level information, device type, serial number,
could be useful
In addition Kwikdisk is a bit more versatile and interactive
as root - you must log in as root, (i had to on my system anyway)
K-system-KWIKDISK
this appears as a small icon on the taskbar at the bottom of the screem, on
my system this is a set of 3 colored boxes), click on this you have options
to view the current settings, change the settings, you can also set it to
run a file manager program automatically upon mounting, which could be
useful.
you can also run this by entering
ALT-F2 - to bring up a command box and typing kdf.
kwikdisk or kdf has lots of options, and click on helo
I seem to remember a program that brought up a simple UI program which
simply had buttons for mount / unmount for each device, only I can't find
it, perhaps this was a RHL program, not sure.
you may also want to check out the following
the help files for the above programs, man mount, - i.e the mount man(ual) page and any other read me files that these refer to.
HTH
Paul
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