the fellow below being me:) hi! adding ide hard disks should be straightforward assuming that a) it's not connected to a seperate io card but to a motherboard connector b) your cmos settings are ok - note, i've known some os's detect drives that are not shown in cmos, winxp for one and i think maybe linux too, c) you have your slave/master settings correct for your new drive, for a disk plus cdrom on the same channel i suggest making the disk master and the cdrom slave (which you seem to have if the cdrom is /dev/hdd), - note, some hard disks have different settings for master-alone and master-with-slave,
i'm surprised that harddrake didn't detect the new disk and offer to run the config tool, have you tried running it within mandrake? run mandrake control centre and go to hardware>hardware list, is your new disk listed there? if so run the config tool which will be diskdrake, this will write your /etc/fstab (without which the new drive won't be mounted at start up and won't show up in file managers) and, i would have thought, set lilo.conf to rights too, though i can't be sure 'bout that come back if this doesn't help bascule On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:53 am, elPunishar wrote: > hi all, > > i wrote to this mailing list some time ago. i had this problem that i could > not add a new harddisk to my system. > the answer of the fellow below had me confident that my problem was > solved.. temporarily i just replaced an existing harddisk with the new one. > that worked okay. > but now i want to replace one of my cd-roms with the new harddisk (as i > tried in the beginning, when my problems started) > > it seems, removing "hdc=ide-scsi" from lilo.conf doesn't quite do the > trick. (i rerun lilo and rebooted of course) > > is there anything else that i have to switch for a harddisk to be accepted > on a former scsi emulated cd-rom slot ? (ide bus) > > tnx & greetings, > le stu -- 'I'll see you all tomorrow. If there is one.' (Men at Arms)
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