From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <compgeek13@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: three hds? is this possible?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 22:23:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001101c79904$780d3980$6701a8c0@GRANDMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008e01c798ea$53ba8390$ab00a8c0@tenstac>
got it. It works awesome now, hdc now mounted in /personal/media/music, with
all my music in the root which is about 9+gb. Took quite a load off of the
/hdb drive.
Thanks,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@proficio.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: three hds? is this possible?
> In the BIOS settings, there should be four settings, one master and
> one slave for each controller. If your BIOS allows for an AUTO
> setting try that and it should auto-detect the drives. On most of the
> older BIOS there was an auto detect function you could invoke
> by pressing a key like F8 or similar and it would detect the drives
> and set the BIOS properly, newer BIOS can auto-detect at boot
> time. If you know which slave slot is for CD and if there is a CD
> setting in the BIOS, use that setting, and check to make sure the
> CD drive is jumpered as slave.
>
> If drives are not showing up then usually they are either not
> jumpered correctly or the BIOS setting is not correct. There are
> two other possible pains with old BIOS, one is limitation of
> drive size, some older BIOS may not support the full capacity.
> Some drives have a special jumper setting for this which will
> limit the drive size for older BIOS. And in some rare cases
> you need to manually set the capacity, number of cylinders
> and tracks, although its becoming rare that you'd have to do
> that anymore.
>
> The most important thing is making sure the drives are
> jumpered correctly as one master and one slave on each
> cable and making sure the drive is enabled in BIOS, if
> there is an auto setting in BIOS try that, if the drive is
> still not working, the drive will be labeled with info for
> cylinder/track/capacity and you can set them manually.
> Hopefully you will not need to do this.
>
> -- Doug
>
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` Gregory Nowak
` Littlefield, Tyler
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` Littlefield, Tyler
` Doug Sutherland
` Littlefield, Tyler [this message]
` GRML 1.0 QUERY David Harvey
` three hds? is this possible? Alex Snow
` Glenn Ervin
` Doug Sutherland
` Ralph W. Reid
` Alex Snow
` Gregory Nowak
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