Re: Adding a third IDE drive in Linux

[Sundar Narayanasamy]

Thanks, Matt. I hadn't set the CDROM to slave.

-Sundar



> 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,
>> >
>> > der.hans
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