Re: drive mount

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 13:57 +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I was in urgent need  of adding more drives to my machine.
> 
> I got hold of a IDE card that allows me to add more drives now.
> 
> Running lspci -v
> 
> I get:
> 
> 0000:01:00.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 0649 Ultra ATA/100 PCI to ATA Host Controller (rev 02)
>          Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 0649 Ultra ATA/100 PCI to ATA Host Controller
>          Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
>          I/O ports at b000 [size=8]
>          I/O ports at b400 [size=4]
>          I/O ports at b800 [size=8]
>          I/O ports at bc00 [size=4]
>          I/O ports at c000 [size=16]
>          Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
> 
> Dmesg says:
> 
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: ST340015A, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: WDC WD600BB-75CAA0, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> Probing IDE interface ide2...
> Probing IDE interface ide3...
> Probing IDE interface ide4...
> Probing IDE interface ide5...
> 
> Obviously I have added / connected the new drive to to the card. Power cable is in / connected.
> 
> Thing is now, how do I access the drive.
> 
> I basically want to create the ext3 file system, mount the drive and copy some files onto the drive.

ide1 master / slave is /dev/hd[ab]
ide2 master / slave is /dev/hd[cd]
ide3 master / slave is /dev/hd[ef]
ide4 master / slave is /dev/hd[gh]

# cfdisk /dev/hde

(make a partition)

# mke2fs /dev/hde1

edit /etc/fstab

-matt zagrabelny