Re: big IBM harddisk
Hi,
Some more info.....
1) Make sure your system boots using your 1 Gb hdd
2) Check what your kernel says about hdd's (dmesg is your friend)
3) Once you have found it use (c)fdisk to create partitions, and add
filesystems using the normal tools
4) mount em somewhere
This *should* work for all. One tip to prevent bios crap:
1) connect the 1 Gb and CDROM to your mainboard
2) power-on and go to bios, do autodetect
3) check that the Secondary master and slave are set to NONE
4) save settings
5) power down
6) connect the Big One as Secondary Master
7) Power On (DO NOT GO TO BIOS TO TELL IT ABOUT THE BIG ONE)
This way you leave all the work that needs to be done to your kernel.
If i try to autodetect my IBM the Abit stops responding......
The wisedom behind : Put the 40 gb drive in as hdc, and cdrom as hdb:
Loads of controllers have to talk to both drives (on the same cable) in the
same way. This means that both of them run at the maximum speed of the
slowest drive. Putting the Big One on it's own cable allows for maximum
speed. There are controllers who are smarter than this, check out if yours
is.
btw, i made a typo... my drive is a DTLA-305040, not a DLTA-304050
(whoepsy....)
regards,
Nico de Haer
----- Original Message -----
From: virtanen <hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi>
To: nico de haer <nicodehaer@yahoo.com>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: big IBM harddisk
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, nico de haer wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I own a IBM DTLA 304050 (41.1 Gb) and i have the same problem using it
on my
> > Abit LX6 mainboard.
> > To solve it i installed a second hdd (old 1 gb seagate) as hda (told
bios
> > about it) the ibm as hdc (did NOT tell bios about it) and my cdrom is
> > connected as hdb. Linux boots using the 1 Gb drive and the kernel
'finds'
> > the IBM.
> >
> > i know, it's a workaround, but it does work.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nico de haer
>
> Sounds interesting. Now I don't remember the make of the mainboard, but I
> think that this might work for me as well. (That computer of mine is at
> home, not connected with the net, I'm writing this using another computer
> at work.)
>
> My system is (for some reason by someone, because it has been working, I
> haven't changed it) as follows:
> ________
> 1 Gb hdd as hda, debian boots from this
> HP cd-writer as hdd
> _______
>
> 1) Should I try to change my cd into hdb and that IBM as hdc?
> 2) Or should it work, if I put IBM as hdc, but don't change anything else?
>
> I've actually tried already 2), but didn't get it working.
> Which program (fdisk?) should I use to check, if I can do anything with
> that BM hdd?
>
> -hv
>
>
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