[ltp] T23, Redhat 7.3 & ultrabay drive

[Tim Abbott]

Hi Tino,

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Tino Keitel wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 16:04:19 -0300, Tim Abbott wrote:
> 
> 1. You have to edit fstab yourself to have an entry for hdc.
> 
> 2. It will only appear in /etc/mtab if you mount it.
> 
> 3. If you dont't have a partition table on hdc, I presume that sfdisk
>    won't display anything.

I assume that a properly formatted disk has a partition table.  WinXP
reads it just fine.

> > ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> > hdc: driver not present
> 
> I think this is only a debug message from some auto mounter stuff or
> things like that.

Others have suggested that linux is not recognising the second IDE
interface or is failing to load the driver.  The file
/proc/ide/ide1/hdc/driver exists, but contains "(none)".

Thanks for your comments,

	Tim

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