PCI Cards - IDE Controllers
jeremy at itassist.net.au
jeremy at itassist.net.au
Thu Sep 13 11:02:17 EST 2001
> My new hard drive isn't recognised by my bios.
> Someone said just ignore the bios incompetence and go ahead ... the
> linux installer will find the hard drive even if the bios cannot?
Put /boot on your old drive and keep your bigger dirs like /var/ and
/home and /usr on the new drive.
I have my old 6gb bootstrapping my 40Gb. Works fine.
> There is the possibility of an upgrade on the bios.
Almost never worth the hassle.
> Or I could buy a new motherboard ... sob!! I need a socket 7 ...
> with support for the AMD2-350.
They probably don't even make 'em any more. Just drop $500 on the table
for a spanking new Ghz Athlon and board.
--
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
A bit or byte to read or write,
I/O, I/O, I/O...
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