From: jfid@mfltd.co.uk (James Fidell) Subject: Re: 2 IDE Drives ? Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 08:38:20 GMT
In article <1993Sep8.224948.292@news.dfrf.nasa.gov>, davisrj@arts.dfrf.nasa.gov (Roy Davis) writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just about ready to toss linux on my 386 (waiting for that new hard
> drive to get here). Looked at this group for the fist time today and saw
> something about 5-600 articles old about a problem with linux and 2 IDE
> hard drives. I was hoping to just add the new drive in as the second
> without changing the first so could somebody tell me exactly what the problem
> was. I think it had to do with using LILO to boot from the different
> partitions (something I hope to do).
I'm running 2 IDE disks off one IDE interface, and I've not had any
trouble so far. If the disks are of different makes, then you may want
to get the hard disk data file from comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware -- it covers
nearly everything you could want to know about chaining two IDE drives
together. Setting master/slave links can be fun. I can e-mail you an
old copy of the file if you need it.
On the other hand, if you want to use to disks on two separate IDE cards,
then I think you need some kernel patches. I can't be sure, but I think
you'll find what you need in the ``atdisk'' package.
James.
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