The guy at torncurtain.com is dealing with losing ~20GB of music while swapping hard drives. It sounds like he lost it for good because he didn’t post anything about the recovery process, but the moral of his story is that upgrading to a 200GB drive is still worthwhile.
Does anyone run more than three hard drives under linux? If so, could you post the details in a comment so we can all check it out?
I run several distros of Linux on two computers, using three hard drives. One hard drive, an old 1.6gig has DamnSmallLinux installed on it and is swapped between the two computers frequently. My box, an AthlonXP, currently contains MEPIS, Mandrake, Ubuntu and Peanut, with a DyneBolic nest on the MEPIS partition and a half-completed Gentoo installation. It’s set up so that the DamnSmallLinux hdd is on hdb (primary slave). To keep things simple (to me), I have Grub on hda, and LILO on hdb. Grub handles all the distros on hda, and when I want to boot DSL, I usually select that drive via the boot selection option available in my BIOS. This allows me the option of having one or both drives installed without getting Grub or LILO load errors. The main hard drive has 14 partitions, with Mandrake and Gentoo occupying the majority of them. The remainder of the distros are installed on one partition each.
My girlfriend’s AMD K-6 has Windows and MEPIS installed on one hard drive, using Grub as bootloader. When I install my DSL hdd in her machine, I install it as primary slave. Her hard drive was installed as secondary master (why? search me…), so my DSL drive supercedes it in the boot list, bypassing any potential conflict.
It works, and is a lot less confusing in action than in trying to describe it. :)
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