I have Linux Red Hat 9 on Pentium III PC (Dell Optiplex 110, 848 Mhz, 128 Mb of memory )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 CD-ROM. I added 20 GB Maxtor Gb IDE Hard Disk drive to the existing controller - it works OK. So now I have: [root@localhost root]# mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hdb1 on /opt type ext3 (rw) [root@localhost root]# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 7930044 6670732 856484 89% / /dev/hda1 101089 9362 86508 10% /boot none 62356 0 62356 0% /dev/shm /dev/hdb1 20034700 1669424 17347560 9% /opt But I need even more disk space ... I bought SIIG UltraATA 100 PCI Controller and 80 Gb Western Digital IDE disk drive - how could I add this new controller with this new disk drive and make existing Linux 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 it 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 the IDE UltraATA 100 PCI Controller Model "ULTRA100 TX2from 'Promise' is better supported by RedHat 9 - is it true ? If yes, again, do I need to do something specific (like compiling module ? - if yes - could it be 'dynamically loadable module' or the module should be statically compiled into the kernel ? I also was told that tsome motherboards would not support more than 32 Gb drive - how could I check what my motherboard limit is? Thanks, Alex ________________________________________________________________ Speed up your surfing with Juno SpeedBand. Now includes pop-up blocker! Only $14.95/ month - visit http://www.juno.com/surf to sign up today! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
