I do not believe second hard disk would be affected. Only first device 
is mentioned in the install scripts. I would assume it is pretty safe to 
leave second HD plugged in.

As far as OS version goes, you can use 1.6.2 which has been very good to 
me. I do not experience any corruptions or lockups with any file size. 
Of course people reported increased performance with 2.0 but with data 
corruption it does not help much.

Thanks,
Alex

Janko Knops wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carsten Pache" <newsabo@gmx.info>
> To: "port-cobalt" <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:18 PM
> Subject: Installing NetBSD 2.0 - second harddisk affected?
> 
> 
>> As my Qube II crashed several times during file transfers via Samba (I
>> upgraded NetBSD 1.6.1 to 2.0 but it seems I missed something special -
>> file transfers using Samba froze my Qube II after transferring a few
>> files - this never happened with NetBSD 1.6.1) and left the boot drive
>> in an unusable state, I now want to install NetBSD 2.0 using the
>> restore CD 2.0-1.
>>
>> My Qube II currently contains two disks. Will the second one be
>> affected when NetBSD is installed using the restore CD? Or will the
>> restore CD use only the first drive, leaving the second one in the
>> state that it already is?
>>
>> Of course, I could disconnect the second drive during installation in
>> order to be absolutely sure that only the first drive will be touched
>> by the restore CD. But most of you know the procedure of opening and
>> closing the Qube's housing (although it is not really difficult).
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards
>> Carsten
>>
>>
> 
> I don't know if your second harddisk would be affected, but the crashes 
> after using samba I've also experienced here.
> I solved that by disabling dma, and now runs stable again. Maybe a 
> solution if you would need to backup the second hdd.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Janko Knops
> 
> 
> 
>