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From: "Art Wildman" <Art.Wildman@noaa.gov>
To: Alexander Povolotsky <pevnev@juno.com>
Cc: linux-config@vger.kernel.org, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE disk drive controllers and disk drive sizes supported by RedHat 9 	Shrike
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 10:38:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41865869.1070909@noaa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041029.153112.504.328747@webmail11.lax.untd.com>

Alexander Povolotsky wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have Linux Red Hat 9 on Pentium III PC (Dell Optiplex 110 )
>running off the 8 Gb Disk Drive; there is also small boot drive on that IDE controller. 
>
>I ran out of disk space on that 8 Gb disk drive.
>
>There is also another IDE controller for the functional CD-ROM there.
>
>I bought (3rd) SIIG UltraATA 100 PCI Controller and 80 Gb Western Digital IDE disk drive - could I add this new controller with this new disk drive and somehow make existing Linux Red Hat 9 recognize this new drive as additional disk space ? Is SIIG UltraATA 100 PCI Controller 
>supported by RedHat 9 ? If yes, do I need to do something specific 
>(like compiling module ? - if yes - could be 'dynamically loadable 
>module' or the module should be statically compiled into the kernel ? -
>are steps to be performed documented someplace on-line ?).
>Somebody told me that 'SIIG's IDE controller is a bad choice for Linux Red Hat 9 and that IDE controller from 'Promise' is supported by RedHat 9 - is it true ? 
>Is 80 Gb drive in general supported by RedHat 9 (which is Linux kernel 2.4 based ) ? If not what is the largest size supported: 10 Gb ? 20 Gb ? 40 Gb ?
>
>Suppose alternatively to above discussed I will just add 20 Gb drive to the second (available) slot on the existent IDE controller, which now controls the CD-ROM - will it work ? (... and if 'yes' - are any actions needed on my part ?).
>
>Thanks,
>Alex
>
>
>
>  
>

If you use that controller you may have to disable another, I would try 
to use the existing IDE interfaces first.

YoLinux Tutorial: Add an Additional New Hard Drive to Your Linux System
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialAdditionalHardDrive.html

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-01 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-29 22:30 IDE disk drive controllers and disk drive sizes supported by RedHat 9 Shrike Alexander Povolotsky
2004-10-29 23:49 ` Kevin J. Cummings
2004-10-30  2:34   ` Glynn Clements
2004-11-01 15:38 ` Art Wildman [this message]
2004-11-01 22:18 ` chuck gelm

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