Re: Second Hard Disk
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote:
> Hi,
> before I changed over to linux, I was MS-DOS and had two
> hardrives installed. They both worked fine. When I changed i didn't
> install the second hard drive and now I need to. How can I. I tryed to
> find some docs but couldn't. Also after I do, how to get to that hard disk?
Assuming they are both ide drives on the same controller, jumper it to be
a slave and connect to the other connector on the ribbon cable. It should
automatically be recognized by the kernel--check your boot message with
'dmesg|more' to see that it is.
Next, do 'fdisk /dev/hdb' to partition, run mke2fs to prepare the
partition(s) for data, add it to /etc/fstab and you should be in business.
Bob
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