Re: How to connect four edi devices? - solved.

.
Just a note to say I finally got the subject installation
solved (and learned a lot in the process).

Apparently there are several problems involved, including
the fact that the bios cannot see a second drive, even though
PCLinuxOS can see it and use it, once installed.

Also, I must say that PCLinuxOS is by far the nicest Linux
distribution I have ever seen. It seems, at this point, that
everything "just works!" ... right out of the box ... including
many things that I have never been able to get to work with
several other distros. And isn't it ironic that Tex (the
"creator" of this distro still calls everything "beta."

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On Tue, 01 May 2007, Jim wrote
> Josef Lowder wrote:
> > .
> > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:06:40 -0700, Eric \"Shubes\" wrote
> >>> Ironic that I can write to a drive on the second ide channel
> >>> even though bios doesn't see it. But I could not figure out
> >>> how to get the installation on the second hard drive to boot.
> >> The bios can see it all right w/out necessarily being able to boot
> >> from it. If you look at the IDE devices in your bios, I'm betting
> >> that they show up. That doesn't mean they're all bootable. Older
> >> BIOSs may not boot from anything other than the primary master.
> >
> > No, bios cannot see it. That is the strange and frustrating dilemma.
> > It just does not show up there in the bios at all.
>
> An earlier version of the server I have at home had a BIOS that
> couldn't properly detect a driver larger than 8.4GB. I had 2 60GB
> and 2 80GB drives in it. The bios would see them as 8.4GB drives.
> I used a floppy to boot the machine. After Linux started loading,
> it detected the drives properly.
>
> Here's another one for you. I have one of those USB hard drives. I
> plug it into my slackware 11 box, but can't mount it. Lsusb shows
> the drive. However when I try mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/whatever
> I get an error message saying /dev/sda1 isn't a valid block device.
> When I plug in my mp3 player and enter mount -t vfat /dev/sda1
> /mnt/whatever it's mounted and I can add files to or delete files
> from it. Go figure.


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