Re: [Sheflug] Promise ATA-100 controller - sorted (nearly)

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

 OK, after a massive set of posts...the solution was one that taxed me
to my limits :-)

 Yup, you might have guessed...yank out all the cards, and stuff them in
a different way around, rebooting after inserting each card one by one.

 I now how /dev/hdg running as /usr:

[root@flux /root]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hdg

/dev/hdg:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.21 seconds =105.79 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.69 seconds = 23.79 MB/sec

in addition I've got an extra 10Mb/s+ out of the drive. :-) This is my
slow drive... / is the fast drive, but this is the next problem.

 I want to have / as /dev/hde, but it's not as easy as just editting
/etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab - lilo complains that there is no such
device as /dev/hde (/ is currently /dev/hda).
 I've got tomsrtbt if that helps - can I use that as a boot disk and
swap the / drive across to the new crontroller, then mess with the
config files?
 If so where/how do I mount /dev/hde1 - surely with tomsrtbt being
readonly (IIRC) I can't just make a new mount point can I?

 I'd rather not just start playing with my root drive...I'm in no mood
to kill it :-)

 Baz. 

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