Drake Donahue posted <004b01c6083a$fc0acf10$0200a8c0@...>,
excerpted below,  on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:34:45 -0500:

> <snipping madly>
> found this and was reminded that i do not know the cd in question is master 
> on the second ide controller
> "
> Your first task is to determine the device name. Refer to the chart below:
> 
>       IDE Port  Master/slave  Device
>       1 master /dev/hda
>       1 slave /dev/hdb
>       2 master /dev/hdc
>       2 slave /dev/hdd
>       3 master /dev/hde
>       3 slave /dev/hdf
>       4 master /dev/hdg
>       4 slave /dev/hdh

That's what I was wondering as well, but I thought /surely/ it had been
covered already, and I must have missed it.  Glad to see it specifically
covered here, however, just in case.

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