Are you sure you have the IDE drive installed in the primary IDE slot ?
It will detect as hdc if it is the master in the secondary IDE slot.
I have always found you can use the boot sector of the IDE and have the root
partition (the whole system really) on the SCSI drive
Part of one of my lilo.confs
boot=/dev/hda
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
label=linux
root=/dev/sda1
Just make sure you have a boot disk that recognises SCSI handy when the IDE
dies :->
Just as an aside, I have not been able to get lilo to put the boot record on
the SCSI drive and have it boot. lilo complains that the SCSI drive is not
the first disk and then you get the dreaded "LI" boot problem. Anyone know
how to fix that?
Cheers
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----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: Mixing Large EIDE and SCSI drives [SOLVED?]
> At 04:41 PM 6/27/00 , Alan Mead wrote:
> >I have an old Dell with an adaptec SCSI controller, an old 4GB Seagate
> >drive, and a Seagate STT28000NS tape drive. I need more space for the
> >backup process so I bought a cheap EIDE drive. Well, even cheap drives
> >these days are huge; I got a 13.6 GB Western Digital.
> >
> >When I install the drive the BIOS does not recognize it. If I make the
> >BIOS recognize it, it gets recognized as hdc and the system won't boot
> >(presumably the BIOS insists on booting the IDE). There is no bios
> >setting for "boot from SCSI first".
> >
> >[...] Anyone know that I can or cannot boot the SCSI? It wouldn't be the
> >end of the world to install Linux on the IDE and boot it... [...]
However,
> >I cannot get the WD to be recognized for all 13.6 GB. I tried many bios
> >and jumper settings and all I ever get is 8.4 GB. I guess I need to get
> >the BIOS to recognize all 13.6 in order to fdisk it, right? Any ideas?
>
> Embarrassed, I was getting confused (one red herring: when I tried to
fdisk
> the first IDE drive, hda, it said no such drive; another RH: I knocked a
> SCSI cable loose and my tape drive had disappeared).
>
> Here's all I needed to do:
>
> Prevent BIOS from causing trouble--if I'm not booting or accessing from
> DOS, why bother with BIOS? (I think I set all drives to NONE).
>
> Recognize that new drive is hdc (I do not know why).
>
> # cfdisk /dev/hdc
> (create a couple partitions)
> # mkfs -V -c /dev/hdc1
> # mkfs -V -c /dev/hdc2
>
> (and then tomorrow morning I'll create mount points and entries in fstab)
>
> -Alan
>
>
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