got it. It works awesome now, hdc now mounted in /personal/media/music, with all my music in the root which is about 9+gb. Took quite a load off of the /hdb drive. Thanks, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:17 PM Subject: Re: three hds? is this possible? > In the BIOS settings, there should be four settings, one master and > one slave for each controller. If your BIOS allows for an AUTO > setting try that and it should auto-detect the drives. On most of the > older BIOS there was an auto detect function you could invoke > by pressing a key like F8 or similar and it would detect the drives > and set the BIOS properly, newer BIOS can auto-detect at boot > time. If you know which slave slot is for CD and if there is a CD > setting in the BIOS, use that setting, and check to make sure the > CD drive is jumpered as slave. > > If drives are not showing up then usually they are either not > jumpered correctly or the BIOS setting is not correct. There are > two other possible pains with old BIOS, one is limitation of > drive size, some older BIOS may not support the full capacity. > Some drives have a special jumper setting for this which will > limit the drive size for older BIOS. And in some rare cases > you need to manually set the capacity, number of cylinders > and tracks, although its becoming rare that you'd have to do > that anymore. > > The most important thing is making sure the drives are > jumpered correctly as one master and one slave on each > cable and making sure the drive is enabled in BIOS, if > there is an auto setting in BIOS try that, if the drive is > still not working, the drive will be labeled with info for > cylinder/track/capacity and you can set them manually. > Hopefully you will not need to do this. > > -- Doug > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
