[ltp] 2nd HD

[Simon Williams]

Dan Sawyer wrote:
> John,
> 
> I have a similar disk on a T41; did you ever get hot swap to work?

Hot swapping a 2nd HDD Works fine with my T23. If you can hot swap the 
optical drive then the 2nd hdd should 'just work', since both appear as 
/dev/hdc (which is what the hot swap programs use).

> John Shane wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 May 2006 08:33:52 -0300
>> Eduardo Nogueira <nogueira@fcm.unicamp.br> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Greetings
>>>
>>> I work with a Thinkpad T42 and want to  add a 2nd HD with
>>> ultrabay slim adapter 62P4554. I have read in think-wiki that
>>> Thinkpad recognizes this 2nd HD on boot time as /dev/hdc.
>>> My (naive) question is how do I proceed from this point,
>>> like format the drive, etc. My distribution is SuSE 9.3
>>>
>>> Thanks for your attention
>>>
>>>
>>> Eduardo
>>>     
>>
>> Bon dia. I use the same arrangement with a Thinkpad T23.  I have an
>> extra HD that is mounted in an ultrabay adapter that I use from time
>> to time. It is indeed recognized as /dev/hdc4.  Because it was
>> formerly my primary drive in the laptop it still has all the old
>> partitions. I'm only interested in one of the partitions and I added
>> the following entry to my /etc/fstab :
>>
>> /dev/hdc4       /hd2    reiserfs        defaults        0       0
>>
>> When the laptop boots with the second drive installed in the
>> ultrabay the laptop finds the drive and mounts the one partition hdc4
>> on /hd2 (just an arbitrary directory I created).  As I use my TP any
>> references to /hd2 access the second drive. When the second drive is
>> not in the ultrabay slot when the laptop boots it just carries on
>> with the DVD or battery, whatever is there. It's very convenient.
>>
>> If you are comfortable with fdisk just boot your TP with the second
>> drive installed and then use fdisk to partition and format the drive
>> at /dev/hdc.  Then edit fstab to reflect the additional drive and
>> partitions.
>>
>> HTH, Joao
>>