On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jose Albores wrote about, New hard drive problems.:
> I've bought a new 13 Gb. Maxtor hard drive and I was trying to share it
> among Linux and Windoze.
> I plugged my new HDD as secondary master so my actual hardware stays as
> follows:
> Primary master: My old 3.5 Gb. hard disk.
> ---
> |
> -> 1.7 Gb. for Windows.
> |
> -> 1.8 Gb. for Linux.
> Primary slave: My generic Cyberdrive CD-Rom.
> Secondary master: The NEW Maxtor 13 Gb. HDD.
>
> When I asked BIOS to "Detect IDE" the BIOS found just... 8 Gb for the
> new HD, with the proper number of cylinders, heads and sectors. I have a
> 1998 TX-Pro motherboard supporting a Penthium 233 MMX processor (too old
> hardware for a 13 Gb. HD???).
That does sound like a BIOS limitation.
> Windows fdisk just "saw" the unsufficient 8 Gb. I made two partitions of
> 4 Gb each with dos-fdisk.
>
> But running "fdisk /dev/hdc" under linux for re-partitioning the new HD,
> linux could "see" the complete 13 Gb and it seems I could succesfully
> make new DOS and Linux partitions in this new hard drive. !?
That is one BIG advantage of linux.
>
> The questions are:
> 1. Working in such environment: maybe harmful for my hardware/software?
> I mean: can I make any damage to my Motherboard or to any hard drive?
> Will I loose suddenly some info/partitions without warning?
As for the drive no, i dont see why it should be harmfull, at least not with
linux. You may however have a problem with mickysofts windows, i dont
really know.
>
> In case no damage will be done:
> 2. Shall I be able to install Linux in my new hard drive, being a
> SECONDARY MASTER, provided that lilo will be in the MBR or /dev/hda and
> "/boot" will be in the 1st. cylinder of the secondary master? And
> leaving the primary master for Windows?
You can, but you should realy read the LILO README, pay good attention to
the section "BIOS restrictions".
If there is any doubt, you can put the cdrom on the secondary master
without any real performace loss. Windows should still find it.
>
> Just in case I will be able to install fully linux on /dev/hdc (without
> /boot in /dev/hda):
> 3. Can I just "copy" my whole linux system from /dev/hda3 (/dev/hda2 is
> swap and /dev/hda1 windoze) to /dev/hdc1, making the proper changes in
> /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab and running lilo?
You can do this, but like i have said before, its just as easy to install a
new system and it could save you time as well.
>
> Sorry for so many questions.
> --
> José Albores - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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