I have a newly bought Dell Precision T7500 MT "desktop" PC ( too big to fit under my desk let alone on top of it!) and am in the process of 'retiring' my 2007-vintage previous PC.
In that PC I had a removable disk-drive drawer ( this one : <a href="http://www.startech.com/HDD/Mobile-Racks/Black-Serial-ATA-Drive-Drawer-with-Shock-Absorbers-Professional-Series~DRW115SATBK"; /> ) into which I could slide one of a number of removable 3.5" 320GB disks in special carrier frames. It also had a decent for-its-time video card, and I thought I could utilise both of those as additions to the new PC. (I can't recall the make, I suspect it is a NVidia with 128MB memory fwtw.) The new PC has two 500GB drives which Debian sees as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, connected to two SATA feeds on the motherboard marked 'SATA-1'. and 'SATA-2'. There is a DVD drive connected to SATA-3. Elsewhere on the motherboard are three further expansion connectors (the manual calls them SAS connectors) marked HDD-1,-2 and -3. I've fitted the drawer in a spare front bay and attached the drive to HDD-3 (*) The PC also has several expansion slots, PCI Express 164-pin and one legacy PCI 120 pin. I dropped the dual-VGA card from my old PC into that slot. Boot the thing up and I see no difference. 'lsblk' shows me sda, sdb and sr0 only. 'arandr' shows me only the one display. (*) I just picked the most accessible socket. I am wondering now whether it needs to have the first expansion device in socket HDD-1. The manual says nothing about adding drives, only removing them :( Any suggestions on how to track down what's (not) going on? thanks... -- best regards, 웃 Victor Churchill, Bournemouth -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-12-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
