On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, nico de haer wrote: > 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......
OK. Thanks. I will try this method this evening. My problem was that my box didn't boot at all, when I connected that big harddrive to the machine. I tried it as the slave of that 1 GB as hda. I will try to change the cd-drive into hdb and the Big One as hdc and see what happens. > > 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. This is something, I've been thinking about. You are probably right. > btw, i made a typo... my drive is a DTLA-305040, not a DLTA-304050 > (whoepsy....) > > regards, > Nico de Haer regards, -hv
