Few Questions on adding 2nd hard drive??

cajun leecajun at alltel.net
Sat Aug 20 23:07:36 UTC 2005


Hi All,

Here is my configuration running this as a home system not critical:

Dell PowerEdge 1600SC with 18gb SCSI HD.  Bought a 160gb EIDE hard drive 
to add in.  I can boot to the SCSI, which is where I have RH9 installed 
and am using right now.  The system see's the hard drive in CMOS and 
also if I run Hardware Browser as Root, Linux sees it as hda.  Here are 
my questions since I have not done anything like this before and would 
appreciate some pointers, Please!!!

1. Can I leave my SCSI as my boot drive and then use the EIDE drive as 
what ever?

2. Since I am going to go to FC4 in the next couple of weeks, would it 
be better to wait and just reinstall using the EIDE drive as the first 
drive wipe out the SCSI and use it as needed?

3. If I can leave the SCSI as the first drive can I use fdisk to format 
hda and then use mkfe2, partition it out and them mount it in /etc/fstab?

If someone could point me to a  howto or some other reading that would 
be great also.  I have tried googling and searching the archives, but 
have not ran across anything like this.

Thanks for the help!!!

Lee Perez
Still a newbie....




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