I interpret you as:
(1) the commands that I issued should work, at least
on some machines.
(2) the reason they don't work might depend on HW.

The machine is an old Dell Pentium III and the disks
are regular PATA-drives. I also tried to mount sdC0
with the same outcome.

/jonas

<-----Ursprungligt Meddelande----->
  From: erik quanstrom [quanstro@quanstro.net]
Sent: 19/2/2010 6:01:57 PM
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to mount a P9 partition?

> This seemed to work out very fine, but I soon relised that
> the content of /n/olddisk now was the filesystem on sdC0,
> instead of sdD0 as one might have expected?

if these are actually sata drives, without a detailed
motherboard manual or creative interpretation of the
silkscreening on the motherboard in addition to some
information on how bios is mapping sata ports, there's
no telling where you're drive will end up.

if you run in ahci mode, you can eliminate the bios
mapping problem. then you'll be back to the previous
situation where you only need to know how the ports on
the motherboard are numbered.

generally the motherboard manual will tell you which
ports are which. that failing, sometimes you can see enough
of the silkscreening to tell you which port is which.

- erik

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