RE: How To Add a New Hard Drive

[Kevin_Saenz dell com]

Donnie,

basically it is all dependant on your system board
bios if your bios can handle the calculation of the
cylinders heads and sector and give the right harddrive
size then you are ok. other wise you will have some
problems. As long as you are installing the hard
as a data drive you should have little problems, and
it shouldn't affect the system. you will need to
fdisk the drive and create a linux partition.
then mkfs.ext2 the device then mount it. If that
all works you have a secondary drive up and running.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donnie Hale [mailto:dhale columbus rr com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2000 12:11
> To: RedHat List Install
> Subject: How To Add a New Hard Drive
> 
> 
> I've been running RedHat 5.1 (on x86) for a couple of years 
> without problem.
> I need to add a second IDE hard drive to the system. It will be in the
> neighborhood of 20GB.
> 
> I've seen a few disjoint messages in the archives covering 
> things like:
> specifying the cylinders/heads/sectors at boot time; 
> enabling/disabling LBA;
> etc. Naturally, I want this to go as smoothly as possible; 
> and I want access
> to the full size of the drive (this isn't a dual-boot machine). I'm
> comfortable with the physical aspects of adding the drive; setting
> master-slave jumpers; etc.
> 
> What I need to know is:
> 
> - What are the preparatory steps required for this?
> - What are the right BIOS settings to use for the drive?
> - What are the specific installation issues?
> - Are there any downsides to making this one massive partition?
> - What's the best/easiest/"right" way to move /home to that 
> new partition?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Donnie
> 
> 
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