Stephen Graham wrote:
>
> Hey.
>
> I am adding an additional SCSI drive to a system. The system currently has
> two SCSI HDs on its first SCSI bus, and they are formatted into ext2
> partitions (and one is the bootable drive w/ the swap space aswell).
If you put swap on all of them, the system will share stuff around, thus
making them marginally faster. I say marginally as it really depends on
what disks do the work and partitioning.
> I am able to partition this drive as a Linux (type 83 in cfdisk) partition,
> but not as an Linux Extended (ext2 - type 85 in cfdisk) partition.
Others have replied on this
> able to uncover anything. Do I need to do a low-level format before I will
> be able to do this?
I've always carried out low level formats on Adaptec controllers, but
not on others.
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