hi to all LinuxExperts,

This is my first attempt in posting a question. hopw you guys can help me. its regarding mounting a new HDD..

First i install Linux on a 8.4GB HDD and then i took it off to reload the 40GB HDD to install Win98...

So that means there is no relation ship between the 2 HDD. My problem here is that i hope to mount to my Win98 HDD while i am in Linux... How should i go about it?

Be back tomorrow night... and thank you in advance

Easy, if you search forums here.
first you need to know which win HDD is
run fdisk -l
list partitions, locate the one which has FAT32 filesystem on - that's the sucker, note the partition device /dev/hdXN
mount /dev/hdXN -tvfat /mount/point
that's all, everything else I leave it to you as you perform search here.
Note: You cannot mount extended partition, only primary, and logical partiotns are mountable.

First i don't see my 40GB HDD. As far as i understand, the usual case is people plug their harddrive on the PRIMARY and SECONDARY IDE.....

1. I plug my 40 GB HDD on PROMISE IDE 1(raid) and
2. 8.4GB HDD on Primary IDE (normal) ......
0. Does this affect the HDD detection while loading LinuX?



$dmesg | grep hd
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda2 hdd=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CREATIVECD4820E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 240kB Cache
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I don't think it detects my Maxtor 40GB HDD
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[lsm@localhost lsm]$ dmesg | grep sd*
Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr 18 07:32:41 EDT 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009d400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009d400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 65532
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61436 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda2 hdd=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Detected 1261.236 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 255520k/262128k available (1125k kernel code, 6212k reserved, 802k data, 296k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000, vendor = 2
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+ stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1aa0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/3147] at 00:11.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
block: 496 slots per queue, batch=124
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:11.1. Please try using pci=biosirq.
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: Unknown VIA SouthBridge, contact Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
*******************************************
ide0: probed IRQ 14 failed, using default.
ide1: probed IRQ 15 failed, using default.
********************************************
hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 296k freed
Adding Swap: 1028152k swap-space (priority -1)
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 07:48:41 Apr 18 2002
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa800, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa400, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x9000, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x8800, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
ehci-hcd.c: $Revision: 1.1 $ USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
ehci-hcd.c: block sizes: qh 96 qtd 96 itd 160 sitd 64
hcd.c: ehci-hcd @ 00:09.2, PCI device 1106:3104 (VIA Technologies, Inc.)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci-dbg.c: ehci_start hcs_params 0x2204 dbg=0 cc=2 pcc=2 ordered !ppc ports=4
ehci-dbg.c: ehci_start hcc_params 0x0002 caching 0 uframes 256/512/1024
ehci-hcd.c: reset 80002 cmd (park)=0 ithresh=8 period=1024 Reset HALT
ehci-hcd.c: init 10000 cmd (park)=0 ithresh=1 period=1024 HALT
ehci-hcd.c: USB 2.0 support enabled, EHCI rev 0.95
hcd.c: 00:09.2 root hub device address 1
hub.c: 4 ports detected
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus3/2, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x483/0x7554) is not claimed by any active driver.
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.18, 07:49:07 Apr 18 2002
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
[lsm@localhost lsm]$

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two failure on ide probed for irq14 and 15 .. *****
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Oh this is different story, what is the RAID chipset, what is the model of you motherboard?

- Mainboard : A7V333 supporting USB2 + RAID
- Athlon XP 2000+ 1.67GHz
- Asus GeForce 4 MX 440
- SoundBlaster Live! Value!
- Creative Infra CDROM Drive
- Lite-On CDRW 40x-12x-48x
- Kingston 256 DDR PC2700 SDRAM
- Hard Disk Drive
(1) Maxtor 40 GB ATA133 (Connected to PROMISE IDE 1 and loaded with : Win98)
(2) Quantum Fireball 8 GB ATA 33 (Connected to PRIMARY IDE and loaded with : Red Hat Linux ver7.3)
- Modem : Aztech V.90 UM9800 (56K)
- Monitor : Phillips 105E (15')
- Speaker : Creative Cambridge SoundWorks
- Keyboard : Logitech 104 keys (PS/2)
- Mouse : Logitech (PS/2)

I'd suggest getting new 2.4.19 kernel, compiling it and installing, bacause the RAID controller is too new for 2.4.18 kernel, there is a support for your RAID in 2.4.19 though. If you have no clue on how to compile your new kernel there are plenty of threads here regarding this issue, just click that search button on the right top corner of the website.

where can i get the latest 2.4.19Kernel ?

http://kernel.org just don't fall for a patch go to their FTP server and grab the whole source

What do you mean by grab the whole source??

Download all the folders? under Linux / Kernel directories???

Confuse ...

no get the only one that says linux-2.4.19.tar.bz2 or .tar.gz

Excuse me again !!!!

i had browsed through all over the folders available but just couldn't find that file. Do i have to log in as somebody (currently = anonymous) so that i get the priviledges to get hidden files?? or some sort? i really could not find the wanted file..... Please help. I am curently getting down the patch file (5MB)

Go here ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ choose linux-2.4.19.tar.bz2 or linux-2.4.19.tar.gz - 25433 KB or 31465 KB respectively

OK now i truly understand things .... Thank you Very Much neo77777

Neo77777,

Do you know of any free software (movie tools or player) that could play *.dat, *.mpeg, *.avi, *.vivo and others which is specially mend for linux platform?

MPlayer, www.mplayerhq.hu

Anything video, it's good to go.

Cool