Richard Ibbotson wrote:

Hi

I've been thinking about putting a second IDE hard disc into my Linux box for a while now. I know that Linux is probably easy to configure for a second disc. I've got a spare 1Gb IDE HD which would do the job

How would I go about doing this with SuSE 6.0 ? Do I have to troil away with the keyboard for a week or do I just install the disc and that's it ?

The other thing is are there any web sites or Howtos on this ?

The biggest problem is making sure you get the master-slave settings right between drives, and your ide cdrom, if you have one. Let's assume you have /dev/hda as master on controller cable 1, and your cdrom is slave on controller 1. Put your new drive as a master on controller2 , that means you will need to plug a new cable into the motherboard in the ide2 connector. Then make sure you go into your bios and tell the system you have a second drive, most modern bioses will find it automatically for you. Then start linux, as root, "fdisk /dev/hdc" and make at least 1 primary partition. Then reboot, and mke2fs /dev/hdc1 to make an ext2 filesystem on your new partition. Then " mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt" and your partition is mounted. You can automatically mount it with an entry in /etc/fstab. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

In addition to what Zentera said.... I have three HDs and one CDROM on my system. I found that if I have a CDROM as master on the second IDE then Linux can't see any HD setting as slave on that IDE. I had to change the jumper config on the CDROM to make it a slave, and make my HD as master on the second IDE connector. Richard Ibbotson wrote:

Hi

I've been thinking about putting a second IDE hard disc into my Linux box for a while now. I know that Linux is probably easy to configure for a second disc. I've got a spare 1Gb IDE HD which would do the job

How would I go about doing this with SuSE 6.0 ? Do I have to troil away with the keyboard for a week or do I just install the disc and that's it ?

The other thing is are there any web sites or Howtos on this ?

Thank you

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