> none of the hard drive options work.... hdc, hdd ...etc...
>
> i have another question since we are on this .....
> this might make things a little bit more complex, as it is (if anyone has
> been following the threads of emails I have beensending would be confused
> as to what I am trying to achieve!!)
>
> i cant help smiling at the whole interest i have created(have I??) :)
Well, there seem to be a decent handful of us now trying to give it our
best shot.
> I WILL be using the dock'c SCSI port to connect to a SCSI CD-ROM drive....
> and since you mention the change in device names for devices in the dock
> .... what MIGHT this device be recognised as by the kernel?? hd* or sd*
> ????
> any clues???
If it really *is* SCSI...
note: the only laptops I *know* of that have a real SCSI port showing
are some of the older HP Omnibooks (waaaah, it appears that we have
one to join the ranks of the stolen) - the 800, and the poor forlorn
600 with its too-weird-for-words-hopeless PCMCIA ... and of *course*
macintosh laptops.
... then all of the things should be sd? not hd?. If the internal drive is
definitely IDE then it remains /dev/hda, and your first SCSI device should be
/dev/sda.
So you would run fdisk:
fdisk /dev/sda
But the partitions within it would have numbers:
mkdosfs /dev/sda1
mke2fs /dev/sda2
mkswap /dev/sda3
> and you can go ahead and publish this stuff on the gazette as long as you
> trim off personal stuff, which i have a bad habit of writing in my emails
> :), and other things that might not make a thread in the chain.
Well, that's why they call me an "editor" :) and I'd like to start by reminding
folks how easy it is to chop off all the "how to unsub from debian-laptops"
footers ;>
> thanks,
> Praveen Kamath
Hey, you're welcome, it's how we pay back the world for our own early days
of confusion. Speaking of which... if anyone knows where there's a good
fast checklist of "ssh won't connect, what stupid thing did I miss" let
me know. I have an sshd being especially weird. And change the subject if
you do it as a reply-to this one.
* Heather Stern * star@ many places... among 'em, sr. tech editor, linuxgazette
