three hds? is this possible?

[Littlefield, Tyler]

got it. It works awesome now, hdc now mounted in /personal/media/music, with
all my music in the root which is about 9+gb. Took quite a load off of the
/hdb drive.
Thanks,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug at proficio.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: three hds? is this possible?


> In the BIOS settings, there should be four settings, one master and
> one slave for each controller. If your BIOS allows for an AUTO
> setting try that and it should auto-detect the drives. On most of the
> older BIOS there was an auto detect function you could invoke
> by pressing a key like F8 or similar and it would detect the drives
> and set the BIOS properly, newer BIOS can auto-detect at boot
> time. If you know which slave slot is for CD and if there is a CD
> setting in the BIOS, use that setting, and check to make sure the
> CD drive is jumpered as slave.
>
> If drives are not showing up then usually they are either not
> jumpered correctly or the BIOS setting is not correct. There are
> two other possible pains with old BIOS, one is limitation of
> drive size, some older BIOS may not support the full capacity.
> Some drives have a special jumper setting for this which will
> limit the drive size for older BIOS. And in some rare cases
> you need to manually set the capacity, number of cylinders
> and tracks, although its becoming rare that you'd have to do
> that anymore.
>
> The most important thing is making sure the drives are
> jumpered correctly as one master and one slave on each
> cable and making sure the drive is enabled in BIOS, if
> there is an auto setting in BIOS try that, if the drive is
> still not working, the drive will be labeled with info for
> cylinder/track/capacity and you can set them manually.
> Hopefully you will not need to do this.
>
>   -- Doug
>
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