Crossover cable connection between 2 computers.

[Steven Vollom]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> The hard drive should have a series of 8 or 10 or so pins near the connector
>> with little tiny plastic connectors ("jumpers") that connect pairs of the pins
>> together. And somewhere on that hard drive should be a diagram showing the
>> placement of those pins for various uses ("master," "slave" etc.).
>>
>>     
>
> He said that it is a sata drive, so no jumpers.
>
>   
>> If you place the pins for "slave" and hook up the hard drive, kubuntu should
>> start up from where it's accustomed to, and possibly find and mount the new
>> hard drive. (It's been a long time since I added a hard drive to a Linux
>> installation, and modern Linuces have spoiled me, what with auto-this and
>> auto-that; if it doesn't mount automatically, somebody on the list should be
>> able to help you to find the drive name and mount it.)
>>
>>     
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't always work that way. If the BIOS had been
> configured for a two drive setup and to boot from the slave, and then
> the slave is removed, it would now boot from the slave that Stephen
> puts in. I've seen this happen countless times. The only way to be
> sure is to open the BIOS and configure it each time a drive is added
> or removed. It is not difficult.
>   
I do not understand all you are saying, but the HDD in my new computer 
is definately a SATA drive.  The Old drives are not, I don't think.  The 
power plug is the old type, for sure.  If having the old type plug still 
could be a SATA, I think one of them may be a SATA, there was something 
special about that drive.  My memory said that it was SATA and that was 
what was specail, but my memory is not reliable. 

Won't it say so on the drive?  It was the newer drive, the 200gb.  
Perhaps I should move that one first, so if it is a SATA it won't mess 
with sftab settings.  I can get the data moved and move on to the other 
drive without problem.  Then when I move the older drive, I will set it 
as a slave, move the data, then format and ready it for new system 
install in the old computer again.

Steven