Well, is there any way you check the manual for your board and letting us know what exactly those IDE3 and 4 actually are? You say, they are kinda IDE and kinda not, but they must be something! Vic ******* ******* ******* have you thought of visiting Cybertsar's Internet Kingdom? It is still alive! Here is the URL: http://go.to/vtsaran or http://kickme.to/vtsaran ******* ******* ******* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <romualt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 11:11 PM Subject: Re: a ton of questions > Hi Kirk, > > Thanks for the crash course. I'mfamilar with how drives and partitions work > under unix. The drive in question is not being recognized by linux. I've > confirmed that beyond a doubt. This board has 4 ide channels which can > support upto 2 drives each. The first 2 are regular ide, and linux sees > drives on them fine. The other 2 (the contolers) are not totally regular > ide. I'm not sure how to exactly explain what they are, but they're not > regular ide channels like the standard ones in modern systems. Perhaps the > person that once mentioned having the same mother board as mine will respond > to my earlier post and clear up the mystery. Again, thanks for your help. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 9:19 PM > Subject: Re: a ton of questions > > > > Greg, > > > > Linux is a beast of a different color then DOS/WINDOWS. First, there are > > no drive letters here. You mount different partitions over a > > directory. Then you do so, the directory will then show the contents of > > the partition. The mount point (or directory) need not be empty, though if > > you mount a partition on top of a directory the original contents won't be > > visable. (Hope this doesn't confuse you too much.) > > > > Also, the drives appear a bit differently in linux. (Actually NT does make > > some use of the naming scheme.) The partitions are listed in a logical > > order. The master drive on the main IDE channel is hda, the slave is > > hdb. Then the next chanell on the IDE has hdc and hdd. As a note if you > > have two drives both as master they will be hda and hdc. The first > > partition on the drive is 1. The next is most likely 5. > > > > I will give you some instructions taking some information for granted. I > > am assuming that the second drive you refer to is the master on the second > > ISE chain and is setup with a single fat32 partition. (Yes, I know > > assumptions are dangerous.) Run the command "mount" and note what > > partitions are currently mounted and where. Then make a directory where > > you will mount the drive. (This is done with the "mkdir" command.) Now > > type the following line: > > mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /myseconddrive > > > > Note that the "/myseconddrive" is the directory you want this > > drive/partition to be mounted on. You probably need to do this as root. To > > cause this to automatically happen when you boot to Linux, you need to > > modify the /etc/fstab file. Also in case you are not familiar in > > Linux/Unix we use forward slashes for our directories. It is possible to > > deal with a space in the file names. To do so you must proceed the space > > with a backslash. Another (perhaps easier) way is to only list enough of > > the name to distinguish it then append the *. Here you can run the > > command: > > cd /home/bob* > > > > It will change to the first directory under home that starts with bob. > > > > ======= > > Kirk Wood > > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > > > Cluelessness > > There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of > > inquisitive idiots > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
