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[MDCleary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cleary, Mike)]

Strangely enough, I had to disable UDMA in the BIOS before
Windows would boot with this drive connected.  I don't know why this
made a difference (I stumbled on it by accident), but in any case disabling
UDMA on a UDMA 66 drive was not acceptable.  So I finally just bought
a UDMA 66 controller card & hooked the new drive up to it.  I think
the problem must have been my BIOS version (even though I have the latest
available from the motherboard manufacturer).

Linux saw all the drives w/ no problem - somehow I'm not surprised! :)
Now all I have to do is try & move my Linux installation to the new drive...
....which may be the subject of another posting I think. 

Thanks to all who responded! 

Mike
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Daniel_Casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Daniel_Casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent:	Sunday, June 25, 2000 10:37 PM
To:	Cleary, Mike
Subject:	RE: [SLE] Move to new hard drive

Have you had any success with this?

You may want to create a bootable diskette with fdisk on it to make
sure that win98 can see it?

Are you using LILO?  How's it installed?

Also, does Linux see both drives?

Probably some silly questions, but they might help.

"Cleary, Mike" <MDCleary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on 06/20/2000 13:28:21

To:   "'suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx'" <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
cc:
Subject:  RE: [SLE] Move to new hard drive

Haven't heard from the list all day..........server probs?

I installed the new hard drive last night - seemed to go smoothly
until I tried to reboot.  Win98 hung at the logo screen & would only
boot into safe mode.  If I disconnected the drive, it booted fine.
Linux booted just fine with the drive connected.....:)  (not real
surprising).

Maxtor has not been much help...but at least it was a toll-free number.

Anyone ever run across this before?  I've installed lots of drives on
various machines
and have not seen this happen before.  Any idea would be greatly
appreciated?

Thanks,

Mike
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UNIX Qualification and Commands
Data General, a Division of EMC2
62 T.W. Alexander Dr.
Research Triangle Park, NC
mdcleary@xxxxxxxxxxxxx              (919) 248-6033
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 -----Original Message-----
From:     Mearl Danner [mailto:jmdanner@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:     Monday, June 19, 2000 3:00 PM
To:  Cleary, Mike
Subject:  RE: [SLE] Move to new hard drive

Could be if you cable up the new drive on the secondary controller and use
PQMagic to copy the linux partition to the new drive, you could:

1. do the partition copy.
2. Boot to your old linux (nothing's changed, The new drive will be hdc)
 primary master = hda
 primary slave = hdb
 secondary master = hdc
 secondary slave = hdd

Even without the primary slave the secondary master will be hdc.

3. edit the lilo.conf & fstab to reflect the new /dev designation. You
might

need to add linear to the lilo.conf depending on how your BIOS handles the
new
drive's geometry.

4. Set up BootMagic to reflect your new setup. I don't think lilo will
handle 2
linux boot partitions on separate drives. You can leave the old linux as is
and
use it if necessary.

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 14:45:12 -0400 "Cleary, Mike"
<MDCleary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Thanks - I see what you are saying, but I think my situation is a little
> different.
> My Win 98 and Linux are not on separate partitions of the same drive, but
> are on separate drives.  The Win 98 drive is the master on the primary
IDE,
> and the Linux drive is the slave on the primary IDE.  What I want to do
now
> is move Linux to the new drive which will be the master on the secondary
> IDE controller.  I guess the safest thing would be to make a boot disk
for
> the
> current installation, then change lilo.conf to reflect the new drive
> designation,
> and hope for the best!  :)
>
> Which reminds me, when I installed 6.3, there was no option to make a
boot
> disk, only a "rescue" disk.  I know there was some discussion about this
on
> the list, but I don't remember the resolution.  I'll check the SuSE
site...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
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> Michael Cleary
> UNIX Qualification and Commands
> Data General, a Division of EMC2
> 62 T.W. Alexander Dr.
> Research Triangle Park, NC
> mdcleary@xxxxxxxxxxxxx              (919) 248-6033
>
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>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   Mearl Danner [mailto:jmdanner@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:   Monday, June 19, 2000 1:48 PM
> To:     Cleary, Mike
> Subject:     Re: [SLE] Move to new hard drive
>
>
> When I went to my new "big drive" I put it in as the primary drive on the
> secondary IDE controller and use BootMagic to select the partition I boot
> from.
> That way my Win/linux drive remained the same - /dev/hdax - and I had the
> luxury of using the old linux to make sure the lilo configuration and the
> fstab
> (I seem to always forget those) entries are correct.
>
> After everything is tested, you can do away with the old linux partition
(or
>
> use the space to play with the 2.3/2.4 stuff) and increase your windows
> partition. I really like having 2 linux partitions on 2 separate drives.
> Gives
> me the freedom to try something a bit risky without loosing the whole
deal.
>
> Remember to have a working floopy boot setup "just in case".
>
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:45:02 -0400 "Cleary, Mike"
> <MDCleary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > I have a dual boot system (Win 98 and SuSE 6.3) w/ Linux on a 3.5 GB
> > drive.  For Father's day I got a new 20 GB drive (absolutely no hinting
on
> > my part of course - a total surprise......:-) ) and I want to move my
> Linux
> > installation to the new drive.  I have Partition Magic 5.0, so it will
be
> no
> > problem to copy the existing partitions to the new drive (although it
may
> > take a while!).  I am keeping the 3.5 GB drive, but am removing an
> > old 1 GB drive and therefore drive letters will change.  My question is
> how
> > best to modify LILO so I'll be able to boot from the new drive without
> > destroying
> > my ability to boot from the old drive if necessary.  My current
lilo.conf
> > includes
> >  "lilo boot= /dev/hdb3"  along w/ a couple of different kernels.  Could
I
> > just simply
> > add a "third" kernel (actually pointing to the same kernel image) but
> change
> > the
> > boot path to /dev/hdXX (whatever the drive turns out to be)?
> >
> > Any thoughts, ideas, warnings?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Mike
> >
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> > Michael Cleary
> > UNIX Qualification and Commands
> > Data General, a Division of EMC2
> > 62 T.W. Alexander Dr.
> > Research Triangle Park, NC
> > mdcleary@xxxxxxxxxxxxx              (919) 248-6033
> >
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> Email: jmdanner@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Samford University

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Email: jmdanner@xxxxxxxxxxx
Samford University


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