[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Sorry, I am confused,
> I have now two hard-drives, the first one is an ATA66 with windows 98,
> and the second one is a SEAGATE ATA100 with Mandrake 7.2 runing fine.
> I don't know if other hard-disk or mother-board (the mine is a WO"-R)
> can have problems.
It is a question of what your motherboard will support - probably
ATA66 and not higher. An ATA100 drive will run quite happily at
ATA33 or ATA66.
To get running at ATA100 you need the Promise PCI plug-in board which
will give you two more IDE interfaces and these, and these only, will
run at ATA100 with ATA100 drives. In Linux terms these drives will
be hde, hdf, hdg & hdh. You will probably want to shift your
existing ATA100 drive from hdc (say) to hdg (say).
If this drive contains any Linux bootable partitions you will have to
use chroot from another existing bootable Linux partition somewhere
else ( :-) - Hint: you may have to install one on your Windows drive)
to edit /etc/fstab and edit /etc/lilo for the new devices, and
finally chroot a run of lilo, then change your boot manager (xosl
suggested - http://www.xosl.org) to boot this hdg partition and make
a floppy boot disk for it (mkbootdisk).
Does that sound simple? (Hint: It's not!).
--
Regards,
Ron. [au]
