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11-30-2005, 11:19 PM
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Registered: Oct 2005
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I just bought two extra 200gb hd......
I only paid $40.00 each at staples, but now I need to know how to hook them up, my main board controller on my sony vaio only has one plug, I have a sata/150 pci card thtat I can plug into a pci slot, but how to get suse 9.3 to recogonize it is beyond me.
Any help appreciated.
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12-01-2005, 12:28 AM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Roodepoort, South Africa
Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04, Antix19.3
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Although I will not be able to help, I think some info is missing in your post. Most importantly if they're SATA or PATA drives.
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12-01-2005, 01:14 AM
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Registered: Oct 2005
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There IDE drives
this is what suse 9.3 shows me in expert partitioning
Code:
Device Size Type Mount Start End
/dev/hda 189.9GB 68200RD 0 24791
/dev/hda1 189.8GB EXTENDED 0 24789
/dev/hda5 188.86GB Linux Native Reiser / 131 24789
/dev/hdb 115GB hd5722512vlato 0 15016
/dev/hdb1 115GB EXTENDED 0 15016
/dev.hdb5 7.89GB Linux Native 0 1024
/dev/hdb6 3.0GB F swap 1025 1416
/dev/hdb7 104.1GB Linux Native 1417 15014
What to do with it all.
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12-01-2005, 06:56 AM
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Registered: May 2004
Location: Australia
Distribution: Gentoo
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Then your SATA card is of no use, take it back and swap it for a joystick or Donkey Kong. Most PCs have only 4 spots for IDE disks without an extra controller, since it seems you already have 2 disks and I'm assuming you have a DVDROM or CDROM on another channel then you have one remaining. Feel free to donate the spare drive to charity. Or go buy a RAID controller and setup a RAID-1 and halve your space! 
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12-01-2005, 08:08 AM
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Is the sata 150 pci card not a controller, it was bundeled with a maxtor drive last year for those pepople that ran out of space, and needed more space, you plug it into your pci slot, and plug in a standard ide cable and either plug in 1 or 2 ide drives to it.
If i'ts some other controller that I need feel free to let me know.
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12-01-2005, 04:22 PM
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Registered: May 2004
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If you can plug IDE drives into the SATA controller (psssst, that's what the card is) then that should work. I don't know to comment. You need to find out what model the SATA controller is so we can help you find out how to make it work in linux.
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12-01-2005, 05:34 PM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: SE Tennessee, USA
Distribution: Gentoo, LFS
Posts: 11,370
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Must be a great buy ... but we need model numbers. You can probably find details on the manufacturer's web-site if there are none on the devices.
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12-01-2005, 07:11 PM
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Registered: Feb 2004
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you can always buy a pci ide card
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12-01-2005, 08:23 PM
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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Canada
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Quote:
Originally posted by Boow
you can always buy a pci ide card
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READ the whole thread before you reply.
He already has one.
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12-02-2005, 12:49 AM
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Can someone give me a example of LVM, assuming two 200gb hard drives hooked up to the motherboard, and one 200GB drive hooked up to the ide pci controller, it keep tellin me I must have lone linux native of xxxxx on one drive, I do that and make a linux native boot drive, and it just repeats itself.
Thanks,
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