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Hi Matt,<BR>
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On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 17:24 +0000, Matt Rhys-Roberts wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Howdy y'all...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Are there a set of simple steps to adding, recognising and configuring a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">blank hard drive?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I have just found an old (~10Gb) hard drive, which has been low-level </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">formatted; no partition info, master boot record or anything on it any </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">more. I'd like to add it to my Mandrake system, which if it were a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Windoze system I'd opt for making it the IDE primary slave.</FONT>
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Good news is that it's the same with Linux, once the drive is installed, configured and visible to the BIOS then Linux will pick up the drive just fine. Probably as /dev/hdb if it's on the primary channel or /dev/hdd for the secondary. As it's unpartitioned then you'll need to run a tool to create the partition table. It'd personally use fdisk (i.e. a command line tool) but I'm sure there's a GUI tool in Mandrake to do it. Then it needs formatting (mkfs) and mounting (/etc/fstab and mount), but again I'm sure there are GUI tools to do this as well. If you want the full blown command line guide, just ask. I didn't want to scare you when there are probably easier ways of doing it.<BR>
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Thanks<BR>
Mark<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks whatever</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Matt</FONT>
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