[ale] install on a maxtor ata/100/20 gig disk

[Armsby John-G16665]

Let me get this straight....


1.  Recompile the kernel.....
 
You can fix this by building a custom kernel, when in menuconfig choose
  "ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support"  then
     "IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices"
        look under the "IDE chipset support/bugfixes" section
        choose "Boot off-board chipsets first support"


Complile and when you boot of the custom kernel the name the disk
on the add-in card will be /dev/hda[1234]


2.  If I can "see" the disk, then copy a bootable image to that disk.


3.  Go to Boot Magic, and add it as a menu option.


4.  Crank up the other disk from a boot up,..... If linux works, I can then do what I want.  I plan to install taper, and restore my linux from disk 1 to my now bootable disk2.


Right?????



John




-----Original Message-----
From: Marc [mailto:marct at mindspring.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 1:32 AM
To: Ken Nagorski
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] install on a maxtor ata/100/20 gig disk




On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Ken Nagorski wrote:
> Â Â Â Â Â  A little off subject, I have a P6SLA from Super Micro. It is a
> little old but it should support the Maxtor 30gig drive I have (It was all
> I could get) Yet it does not. I have thought about getting the add on card
> however I wasn't sure about how these things worked under Linux.
> 
> Â Â Â Â Â  Does anyone have any suggestions. I am thinking that I am better
> off getting a new motherboard? No? Yes?


Sure, the add-in cards work just fine.  Linux has this nasty habit of
noticing your on-board IDE even if you turn it off in BIOS.  This means
if your boot device is on the add-in card it winds up being named
/dev/hde[1234]


You can fix this by building a custom kernel, when in menuconfig choose
  "ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support"  then
     "IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices"
        look under the "IDE chipset support/bugfixes" section
        choose "Boot off-board chipsets first support"


Complile and when you boot of the custom kernel the name the disk
on the add-in card will be /dev/hda[1234]


--marc
marct at mindspring.com





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