From: Doherty, Gord ([email protected])
Date: Thu Jan 27 2000 - 15:01:47 CET
What make and model of Hard Drive ? In my experience most HD's are slave
with jumpers off
I have a lot of info on various older HD's
Gordon Doherty.
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> From: Renato [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 8:19 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OT] Installing muLinux from floppy
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> Hi, winsor,
>
> I already went to manufacturer site and downloaded the HD user manual.
> Master setting is jumpers off.
> Unfortunately, with no jumpers at all, the HD is still being recognized
> as slave.
> I think its controller isn't working fine.
>
> renato
>
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> On 26/01/00 at 20:52 winsor wrote:
>
> >Renato,
> >
> >Is there any particular reason you can't make this HDD a master???
> >I know that the difference between slave and master usually lies in the
> >jumper settings.
> >If you need jumper settings you can go to
> >http://www.blue-planet.com
> >They have a fairly complete list of both new and old hard disks along
> >with all the setup parameters and jumper settings.....
> >
> >good luck
> >
> >signed
> >winsor
> >
> >
> >Renato wrote:
> >>
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> >> On 26/01/00 at 19:23 Michele Andreoli wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:40:15PM -0200, Renato nicely wrote:
> >> >> Michele,
> >> >>
> >> >> I am trying to make a Frankenstein based on an good old mainboard
> (386DX40 + 8M) and a 40MB laptop hard disk, without floppy drive
> (unfortunately I have no working 5-1/4 floppies anymore).
> >> >> I cloned a UMSDOS mulinux installation to the HD but I could not
> configure it to work as master drive.
> >> >> Do you know if the procedure you sugest below would work if I used
> root=/dev/hdb1 (first slave HD partition eith no master HD)?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >I can't understand what you means. You trasported an UMSDOS pkzipped
> >> >installation in a new machine?
> >>
> >> No. I boot mulinux from floppy (I install a temporary floppy drive),
> configure and then cloned into the DOS formated HD (recognized as slave).
> Then I see I cannot boot DOS from slave HD (to start mulinux with
> linux.bat) neither force hardware to recognize the HD as master.
> >> >
> >> >If it's true, you have to do TWO think to rewake the new system
> >> >
> >> >1. change loadling.cfg with the new root=/dev/XYZ ...
> >> >2. rm /dev/root ; ln -s /dev/XYZ /dev/root
> >> >
> >> >Step 2 requires a working muLinux. Mount the umsdos partition
> >> >from the floppy-mulinux and do the changes.
> >> >
> >> >Michele
> >> >
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