Re: [newbie] using a removable hard drive (DOS)
If linux does not find a drive it wants to mount it will just give an error message and resume. But you should disable kudzu if you want to do that. - Original Message - From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 2:11 PM Subject: [newbie] using a removable hard drive (DOS) > Is it relatively straight forward to use a removable hard drive that is DOS > formatted in Linux. What I have are two drives, on with Linux and one with > Windows. When I want to use windows I pull out the Linux drive and put in > the Windows drive. This makes it easy for me to take my windows drive to > work to pull crap off of it and etc... > > What I would like to do is put in another bay so that while in Linux I can > get to my windows drive. But I i'm not sure how I would mount the drive or > if there would be any contention during times when the drive was not in the > bay. > > Is this making any sense? >
RE: [newbie] using a removable hard drive (DOS)
Yeah, I've got that figured out but my question I'm having is will linux
just ignore the second drive when it is missing or will it hiccup because it
expects a drive (in the bay) when it's not there?
Windows doesn't care, I can pull out the drive and put it back in (rebooting
of course) and it always handles it ok. Will linux do this too? Do I have
to manually mount and unmoun the drive each time?
-Original Message-
From: L. H. LOO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 2:16 AM
To: rbh
Cc: Mark Johnson
Subject: Re: [newbie] using a removable hard drive (DOS)
At 07:12 PM 16-11-2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Subject: [newbie] using a removable hard drive (DOS)
>What I would like to do is put in another bay so that while in Linux I can
>get to my windows drive. But I i'm not sure how I would mount the drive
You need two bays : one for Linux and one for Windows, { presume you also
have a cdrom, that makes a total of three 5 .25 inch bays }. Your computer
case may not have the space needed, here is the fun comes in : connect the
C: drive and the cdrom to the first IDE connector, connect second harddisk
ribbon cable to the second IDE connector 'snake' the cable through a port
hole outside the case, connect the cable to the bay; do the same to the
power cable for the bay. In case you do not follow what I said, mail me
out side the list. HTH
Re: [newbie] using a removable hard drive (DOS)
Mark - If I understand your question, you want to run Linux on your boot hard drive, yet access a Windows "file system" from another hard drive conceptually, this is what will be required... 1. the other device can be "seen" by Linux 2. the device is mounted as a file system (I believe this is the proper phrasing...) 3. the file system is in a format that will be understood by the Linux operating system point 1 will likely be handled ok by the BIOS... you can check the "devices" file once you boot Linux (don't remember the file name, but I know the rest of the list can provide this for you...) point 2 - I am not sure... if a FAT16, or FAT32, or NTFS format volume can be mounted by Linuxagain, the list can help point 3 - what Linux program/utility/or whatever will interpret the Windows format files? not sure, believe they exist, again, the real experts on the list can help... just some guidance on what the details might be...Tom, Larry, et al? rbh Linux User 193554 - Original Message - From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 6:11 AM Subject: [newbie] using a removable hard drive (DOS) > Is it relatively straight forward to use a removable hard drive that is DOS > formatted in Linux. What I have are two drives, on with Linux and one with > Windows. When I want to use windows I pull out the Linux drive and put in > the Windows drive. This makes it easy for me to take my windows drive to > work to pull crap off of it and etc... > > What I would like to do is put in another bay so that while in Linux I can > get to my windows drive. But I i'm not sure how I would mount the drive or > if there would be any contention during times when the drive was not in the > bay. > > Is this making any sense? >
Re: [newbie] using a removable hard drive (DOS)
Mark Johnson wrote: > Is it relatively straight forward to use a removable hard > drive that is DOS formatted in Linux. What I have are two > drives, on with Linux and one with Windows. When I want to > use windows I pull out the Linux drive and put in the > Windows drive. This makes it easy for me to take my > windows drive to work to pull crap off of it and etc... > > What I would like to do is put in another bay so that while > in Linux I can get to my windows drive. But I i'm not sure > how I would mount the drive or if there would be any > contention during times when the drive was not in the bay. > > Is this making any sense? Markthe only problem I see is that of master/slave if you use IDE drives (a non-problem w/scsi). The easy way around that would be to have the second hot swap bay plugged into the secondary IDE controller so that the Windows drive could be left set as master when using it in that bay on that machine. -- Alan
[newbie] using a removable hard drive (DOS)
Is it relatively straight forward to use a removable hard drive that is DOS formatted in Linux. What I have are two drives, on with Linux and one with Windows. When I want to use windows I pull out the Linux drive and put in the Windows drive. This makes it easy for me to take my windows drive to work to pull crap off of it and etc... What I would like to do is put in another bay so that while in Linux I can get to my windows drive. But I i'm not sure how I would mount the drive or if there would be any contention during times when the drive was not in the bay. Is this making any sense?
