Re: Adding a third IDE drive in Linux

Is the CDROM on bus 1 set to Slave? What have you tried that leads you to
believe the system doesn't see the new drive? You might also check your
BIOS settings to make sure the drive is accessible.
~M


On Sat, 4 May 2002, Sundar Narayanasamy wrote:

> I added the hard drive(40G IDE) to my home server(RedHat 7.1). The server
> already had two(6G and Original 2.5G) IDEs on Bus 0 and CD ROM on bus 1, so
> I added the new drive as a master on bus 1. The problem is system doesn't
> seem to see the new hard drive.
>
> Sundar
>
> "A man is only as big as the dreams he dares to live"
>
>
>
> > 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,
> >
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