Am 03. May, 2002 schwätzte sundar so: > I want to add a third IDE drive to my home server. It's a old Sony > PCV-70. Are there any good How-tos you could refer me to. ide bus 0 master is /dev/hda ide bus 0 slave is /dev/hdb ide bus 1 master is /dev/hdc ide bus 1 slave is /dev/hdd On normal x86 box bus 0 is primary ide and bus 1 is secondary ide. Normally your original hard drive should be hda. Your CD will be hdb if it's on the same cable as the primary hard drive or hdc if it's by itself on the secondary ide bus. If you have two items on an ide cable use the jumpers to set one to master and the other to slave. I think you might be able to set them both to select ( or something like that ) if they're new enough. Look at www.LinuxDoc.org for HOWTOs. There are plenty. There should be one that covers ide hardware setup. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ # I've got a photographic memory, # but I'm lousy photographer. - der.hans