a ton of questions

[Victor Tsaran]

Well, is there any way you check the manual for your board and letting us
know what exactly those IDE3 and 4 actually are? You say, they are kinda IDE
and kinda not, but they must be something!
Vic

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <romualt at megsinet.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: a ton of questions


> 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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