To add a second hard disk: We installed an EIDE Ultima controller (DTC Data
Technology) and a Fujitsu MPA3017AT disk drive. We are running Slackware
3.1 on a PS/2 486DX/33mhz with a regular AT Bus and the original BIOS
(vintage 1992).
1) Problem #1 - How to get Linux to recognize the second drive.
fdisk does not like hdb or hdc. (There is a message in the startup
stream that looks like hdb is
pointing to the CD-ROM drive, which is on the original
controller with the first disk drive)
2) Problem #2 - Linux keeps displaying the following message, even after
startup:
INIT: Id "d1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Problem 2 may not be related to Problem #1 but happened after I was trying
to get the 2nd disk configured - #2 may be a result of something stupid that
I did.
I can startup and run Linux but need the extra space!
Any help is greatly appreciated
-----Original Message-----
From: Jun G <mmegj@usa.net>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>;
linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 09:58 PM
Subject: New Disk
>Hello. I've been trying to add a new disk to our Linux machine (2.0.35) but
>I've been encountering some problems. The machine has an AIC7880 and
>AHA294X SCSI controllers. At present, it has a single 2GB SCSI-III Western
>Digital disk connected to the AHA294X and a SCSI CDROM connected to the
>AIC7880. After adding the new SCSI disk to the AIC7880 controller, my
>system won't boot and it says that there are no boot devices found. I tried
>to boot off from a floppy, but it just stops after trying to mount the
>filesystems. I tried to connect it to the other controller but just the
>same, my machine won't boot. I thought that this would just be as simple as
>adding a new IDE disk. Is there any particular way of adding a SCSI disk to
>a machine?
>
>Thanks for any info.
>
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