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Green Anthony John (jag80@wumpus.cc.uow.edu.au) wrote:

: Hello all...
: 	I have linux 1.2.13 and currently using 2 E-ide drives with Linux no
: problems... I just installed another E-ide drive on the Secondary Master
: position in my Bios, and while Dos can see it fine ..linux cannot?

: 	I checked the following with Linux :

:    Use new IDE driver for primary/secondary i/f (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE) [y] 
: 	- The support is compiled in the Kernel..
:    
:    When i use the dmesg command i get :

: hda: Maxtor 7850 AR, 814MB w/64KB Cache, LBA, CHS=827/32/63, MaxMult=8
: hdb: Maxtor 71260 AT, 1204MB w/256KB Cache, LBA, CHS=612/64/63, MaxMult=16
: hdc: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS
: hdc: MATSHITA CR-574, ATAPI, CDROM drive
: ide1: secondary interface on irq 11
: ide0: primary interface on irq 14
: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
: FDC 0 is a 8272A

: which finds my first 2 drives and the cdrom fine...but not the 3rd hard drive.
: (my cd-rom is configured at hdc as an ide cd-rom drive)

: Here is my fstab just in case it helps...
: /dev/hda2        swap        swap        defaults   1   1
: /dev/hdb2        /           ext2        defaults   1   1
: /dev/hda1        /dosc       msdos       defaults   1   1
: /dev/hdb1        /dosd       msdos       defaults   1   1
: /dev/hda5        /dose       msdos       defaults   1   1
: /dev/hdb5        /dosf       msdos       defaults   1   1
: /dev/hdc         /cdrom      iso9660     ro
: /dev/fd0         /floppy     msdos       defaults   1   1
: none             /proc       proc        defaults   1   1
: ....but if Linux doesnt find it when it probes i couldnt see how i could force
: it to look for it with the fstab ;)

: Any help would be appreciated as I would like to move files around in Linux
: with all three drives....

Linux might not look for the 3rd drive once it has found the CDROM.

try something like "append = "hdd=1024,5,17,1024,15" " in your
/etc/lilo.conf.  The numbers of course has to match your drive geometry.

Once that is done correctly the drive should get detected at bootup.

try "fdisk /dev/hdd" to see if everything is okay.  After that edit
fstab to mount whatever partitions you like.


Tony
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