Adding a drive in a linux box should not be difficult at all (i never had
these problems).
Jun, For the SCSI hard drive, this will sound stupid but if you connect a
broken SCSI device on a SCSI bus, it may disturb the SCSI bios and your
SCSI card won't find any boot device. (did you plug it correctly ? did
you check the terminators , did you check the drive in another box ?...)
Wes, For the IDE hard drive, yes fdisk 'likes' /dev/hdb /dev/hdc and
/dev/hdd (i have 4 ide drives).
If your CDROM is with the first had drive then it is /dev/hdb, your first
hard drive is /dev/hda. Your new hard drive (configured as master of
course) is then /dev/hdc.
(Wes, for me you problem #2 as nothing in common with #1)
-----Message d'origine-----
De: Wes Gaige [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Date: dimanche 13 septembre 1998 19:27
�: linux-net; linux-newbie; Jun G
Objet: Re: New Disk
This is another 'keep the thread alive - similar problem' message.
To add a second hard disk: We installed an EIDE Ultima controller (DTC
Data
Technology) and a Fujitsu MPA3017AT disk drive. We are running Slackware
3.1 on a PS/2 486DX/33mhz with a regular AT Bus and the original BIOS
(vintage 1992).
1) Problem #1 - How to get Linux to recognize the second drive.
fdisk does not like hdb or hdc. (There is a message in the
startup
stream that looks like hdb is
pointing to the CD-ROM drive, which is on the original
controller with the first disk drive)
2) Problem #2 - Linux keeps displaying the following message, even after
startup:
INIT: Id "d1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Problem 2 may not be related to Problem #1 but happened after I was
trying
to get the 2nd disk configured - #2 may be a result of something stupid
that
I did.
I can startup and run Linux but need the extra space!
Any help is greatly appreciated
-----Original Message-----
From: Jun G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 09:58 PM
Subject: New Disk
>Hello. I've been trying to add a new disk to our Linux machine (2.0.35)
but
>I've been encountering some problems. The machine has an AIC7880 and
>AHA294X SCSI controllers. At present, it has a single 2GB SCSI-III
Western
>Digital disk connected to the AHA294X and a SCSI CDROM connected to the
>AIC7880. After adding the new SCSI disk to the AIC7880 controller, my
>system won't boot and it says that there are no boot devices found. I
tried
>to boot off from a floppy, but it just stops after trying to mount the
>filesystems. I tried to connect it to the other controller but just the
>same, my machine won't boot. I thought that this would just be as simple
as
>adding a new IDE disk. Is there any particular way of adding a SCSI disk
to
>a machine?
>
>Thanks for any info.
>
