a ton of questions

[Gregory Nowak]

Hi Kirk,

Thanks for the crash course. I'mfamilar with how drives and partitions work
under unix. The drive in question is not being recognized by linux. I've
confirmed that beyond a doubt. This board has 4 ide channels which can
support upto 2 drives each. The first 2 are regular ide, and linux sees
drives on them fine. The other 2 (the contolers) are not totally regular
ide. I'm not sure how to exactly explain what they are, but they're not
regular ide channels like the standard ones in modern systems. Perhaps the
person that once mentioned having the same mother board as mine will respond
to my earlier post and clear up the mystery. Again, thanks for your help.


----- Original Message -----
From: Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: a ton of questions


> Greg,
>
> Linux is a beast of a different color then DOS/WINDOWS. First, there are
> no drive letters here. You mount different partitions over a
> directory. Then you do so, the directory will then show the contents of
> the partition. The mount point (or directory) need not be empty, though if
> you mount a partition on top of a directory the original contents won't be
> visable. (Hope this doesn't confuse you too much.)
>
> Also, the drives appear a bit differently in linux. (Actually NT does make
> some use of the naming scheme.) The partitions are listed in a logical
> order. The master drive on the main IDE channel is hda, the slave is
> hdb. Then the next chanell on the IDE has hdc and hdd. As a note if you
> have two drives both as master they will be hda and hdc. The first
> partition on the drive is 1. The next is most likely 5.
>
> I will give you some instructions taking some information for granted. I
> am assuming that the second drive you refer to is the master on the second
> ISE chain and is setup with a single fat32 partition. (Yes, I know
> assumptions are dangerous.) Run the command "mount" and note what
> partitions are currently mounted and where. Then make a directory where
> you will mount the drive. (This is done with the "mkdir" command.) Now
> type the following line:
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /myseconddrive
>
> Note that the "/myseconddrive" is the directory you want this
> drive/partition to be mounted on. You probably need to do this as root. To
> cause this to automatically happen when you boot to Linux, you need to
> modify the /etc/fstab file. Also in case you are not familiar in
> Linux/Unix we use forward slashes for our directories. It is possible to
> deal with a space in the file names. To do so you must proceed the space
> with a backslash. Another (perhaps easier) way is to only list enough of
> the name to distinguish it then append the *. Here you can run the
> command:
> cd /home/bob*
>
> It will change to the first directory under home that starts with bob.
>
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
>
> Cluelessness
> There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of
> inquisitive idiots
>
>
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