From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip-206-123-194-16.static.fasttrackcomm.net ([206.123.194.16] helo=tysdomain.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Hou1v-0000DX-00 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 00:25:46 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.103] (helo=GRANDMA) by tysdomain.com with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HooPo-0000nr-00 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 16:25:45 -0600 Message-ID: <001101c79904$780d3980$6701a8c0@GRANDMA> From: "Littlefield, Tyler" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <000801c7989f$fe734e20$ac41a8c0@panthernet.local><20070517182903.GA12518@localhost.localdomain><002e01c798e8$1a6093c0$ab00a8c0@tenstac><001801c798df$e1a0f6e0$6701a8c0@GRANDMA> <008e01c798ea$53ba8390$ab00a8c0@tenstac> Subject: Re: three hds? is this possible? Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 22:23:24 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000741-0, 05/17/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 04:25:50 -0000 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" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup