HELP!! ( can't add 2nd RLL drive under ISC 2.0.2 )
Jon Block
jon at nucleus.mi.org
Mon Dec 10 14:09:32 AEST 1990
I am having a great amount of difficulty in adding a second
hard disk to my system. The configuration is as follows:
Micronics Motherboard 386/20 w/8MB ram
Western Digital RLL Controller WD1006V-SR2
Seagate 65MB Hard Drive ST277R
Seagate 122MB Hard Drive ST4144R
I can use either drive as drive 0. I have formatted both using
the controller BIOS and the Interactive formatting program, as
it appears that I first have to do a low level format with the
BIOS, then format under unix, then reset the drive type with
the controller BIOS ( should I really have to do this ). When
I tried to add the second hard drive, using the sysadm menus,
after answering the questions, the drive light comes on, and stays
on forever ( or at least as long as I could wait :-) ). At this
point I had to reboot in order to use the machine again. I then
tried to add the disk manually, but this seemed to have a problem
at the point I ran mkpart. Same symptoms, red light goes on,
wait for the heat death of the universe. I would really like
to get the extra 65MB, as it would make some development projects
much easier. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. - I also configured the HPDD, just in case, although it
seems this shouldn't be neccessary.
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