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From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: Adding a second disk to SCO UNIX 5.0.5
Date: 14 Jun 2003 17:19:24 -0400 References: <5140b91e.0306141221.2769c59@posting.google.com>

Jorge Beteta wrote:

>    I've got an SCO UNIX Openserver 5.0.5 as a server and I want to add
> a second hard disk in order to copy data from my first disk to the
> second one. Thanks to Edfair I know that I have to do:
>   mkdev (first time with the drive and controller ID)  creates the
> mount points
>   reboot
>   mkdev (once again with the drive and controller ID) formats and sets
> up partitioning
>   mkdev fs sets up the mount points
>   reboot
> 
> The server is a Pentium I, 128MB memmory, 200 Mgz
> My hard disks setup configuration is:
> 
>                Type
>               --------- 
>    Pri Master  User         <--- IDE-0  (546MB)
>    Pri Slave   CDROM
>    Sec Master  Not Installed
>    Sec Slave   User         <--- IDE-1  (850MB)
> 
> The Pri Master has the SCO UNIX.
> The Sec Slave Disk is just formatted in FAT 32, no data at all. I'd
> like to format it in UNIX once the UNIX recognize it.

The OpenServer IDE driver does not support accessing a slave drive with
no master.  I _have_ seen it work in some cases, but the driver wasn't
written to support it, it usually doesn't work.  Can you move that drive
to Secondary/Master?

>Bela<

Psst - Wanna work for yourself?

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