Re: big IBM harddisk

[virtanen <hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi>]

> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, nico de haer wrote:

> > 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......

I tried, but if I connect my IBM, the machine doesn't boot at all... 

I'll try again today evening to find a solution. Maybe I made some mistake
with the bios. 

I've now got another old harddisk ( 1,2 GB) and I managed to get that
working and I might settle on that and let the Big One waiting for another
box. 

-hv