a ton of questions

[Gregory Nowak]

I could e-mail the pdf file to anyone that is willing to take a look at it.
The authors of the manual didn't spend more then a sentence or 2 on the
controlers.
Greg Nowak


----- Original Message -----
From: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran at nimbus.ocis.temple.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: a ton of questions


> 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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