RESEND: somebody please help, i cant be the only one who wants to add an additional harddisk..
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hello again :) a) its connected to a motherboard connector b) not a problem, harddisk is detected by cmos c) settings are correct (been messing with computers all my life ;) the entry in lilo.conf was like this: append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet" i removed this "hdc=ide-scsi". this had one effect, that during boot-up a message appears, telling me that hdc was added. so far so good. this dows not happen with lilo.conf in its original state. the diealog asks me whether i wnat to run the config tool, okay. then i have a listing of the partitions on hda, the partitions on hdb, but no trace of hdc (even though it just announced to me that it had discovered the same) unfortunately it doesn't change anything on the situation afterwards. in can see hdc in the "detected hardware" listing of mandrake control center (even with "hdc=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf), but thats about it. can't see it in diskdrake, can't open it with fdisk... /dev/hdc simply doesn't exist. thanks for your help! greetings, le stu On Wednesday 28 May 2003 01:16, bascule wrote: > 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
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