| Nick Norman 2004-01-23, 7:11 pm |
| Hi all,
My system is (almost) all scsi, there is an IDE tape drive as /dev/hda all
other drives are scsi.
For backup etc I have added a 123Gb IDE HDD as /dev/hdc (master on
secondary IDE). However on booting all is well until the linuc bootstrap
process checks the IDE ports, finds both, allocates the IDE tape to
/dev/hda and the new drive to /dev/hdc - OK
Then it checks /dev/hdd - to no effect it does not exist - OK -ish
The it does (or tries to do ) a partition check on hdc and there it hangs
- as far as I can see for ever (I've given it about 30 mins then I got
bored and disabled the secondary IDE port to prevent the system picking up
the drive - set to none in the bios does not stop Linux seeing hte drive
and doing the partition check)
So how do I either
a) get the start-up process to skip the partition check or,
b) get a partition table on the drive?
TIA
Nick
p.s.
Celleron 1Ghz, 256Mb RAM, RH 7.3 kernel 2.4.18-26.7.x
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