A couple of weeks back I was having problems with a 120Gb Maxtor D540X
& Mandrake 8.2 (well, any flavour of Linux as it turned out) and an
old Pentium 233MMX machine with an ALI 5229 IDE controller. System
would hang during boot with the drive installed, even though it wasn't
yet configured.
Chan
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:12:15 +0100, Jon wrote:
>H - gotta think about where I go next.
>Seems to be something special about this controller & this drive in
>combination that upsets Mandrake. Although I know that the combination
>will work cos Win2000 installs OK there...
>Time to think some m
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:09:05 -0400, et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>as with any network, the defination of "new storage" is probley part of the
>problem, in fact defining the new storage to the OS is about the whole
>problem, my guess. If it were me, I would have first decided what OSs I want,
On Monday 26 August 2002 09:31 am, you wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 06:19:42 -0400, et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >is your win2k an ntfs drive? how much did you partition for win2k? is
> > there free space left? when you partitioned it for win2k what tools did
> > you use?
>
> My first attempts
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 06:19:42 -0400, et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>is your win2k an ntfs drive? how much did you partition for win2k? is there
>free space left? when you partitioned it for win2k what tools did you use?
My first attempts involved just attaching the raw unformatted drive.
If this
Hi everyone,
What is it they say on all the talk shows? "Long time listener, first
time caller" :-)
Anyway, I have a file server on my home network running out-of-the-box
Mandrake 8.2 & I'm trying to upgrade the drives & put a 120Gb Maxtor
in there. I initially tried putting it in alongside the e
