At 04:41 PM 6/27/00 , Alan Mead wrote:
>I have an old Dell with an adaptec SCSI controller, an old 4GB Seagate
>drive, and a Seagate STT28000NS tape drive. I need more space for the
>backup process so I bought a cheap EIDE drive. Well, even cheap drives
>these days are huge; I got a 13.6 GB Western Digital.
>
>When I install the drive the BIOS does not recognize it. If I make the
>BIOS recognize it, it gets recognized as hdc and the system won't boot
>(presumably the BIOS insists on booting the IDE). There is no bios
>setting for "boot from SCSI first".
>
>[...] Anyone know that I can or cannot boot the SCSI? It wouldn't be the
>end of the world to install Linux on the IDE and boot it... [...] However,
>I cannot get the WD to be recognized for all 13.6 GB. I tried many bios
>and jumper settings and all I ever get is 8.4 GB. I guess I need to get
>the BIOS to recognize all 13.6 in order to fdisk it, right? Any ideas?
Embarrassed, I was getting confused (one red herring: when I tried to fdisk
the first IDE drive, hda, it said no such drive; another RH: I knocked a
SCSI cable loose and my tape drive had disappeared).
Here's all I needed to do:
Prevent BIOS from causing trouble--if I'm not booting or accessing from
DOS, why bother with BIOS? (I think I set all drives to NONE).
Recognize that new drive is hdc (I do not know why).
# cfdisk /dev/hdc
(create a couple partitions)
# mkfs -V -c /dev/hdc1
# mkfs -V -c /dev/hdc2
(and then tomorrow morning I'll create mount points and entries in fstab)
-Alan
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