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
--
Art Wildman/ITO @ WFO-JAX - art.wildman@noaa.gov
National Weather Service Office - http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jax
13701 FANG Dr., Jacksonville, FL. 32218
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
next prev 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=41865869.1070909@noaa.gov \
--to=art.wildman@noaa.gov \
--cc=linux-admin@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-config@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=pevnev@juno.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).