This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
New harddisk
Article: 7462 of alt.hackers From: sandor@laura.xs4all.nl (Sandor Rabe) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: New harddisk Message-ID: 030195002703Rnf0.79b6@laura.xs4all.nl Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 00:27:00 GMT+1 Organization: Sando's Photo & Philmstudio Approved: duh... X-Newsreader: Rnf 0.79b6 Lines: 23 Status: RO
Straight_To_The_Obhack: Installing a new harddisk in my computer.
First of all: I didn't have any documentation on my old harddisk,
a 170MB conner, and barely any on my new quantum, so I had to try
all jumper options (IDE :( ) before the second harddisk was actua-
lly falling into it's slave role and the old one became master. I
mean, it _was_ a cheap buy but hey, isn't two pieces of xeroxed
info a little too cheap? :) Anyway I got both drives recognized by
my computer. Next thing was making DOS believe it really was 730MB
and not 503 as it kept argueing :) I finally managed with a Linux
bootflop and mounting /dev/hdb to create a true 730MB primary on
it. Thank god for Linux, a little less braindead then DOG or OS/2
when it comes to recognizing your hardware. Anyway, now I'm going
to test it under DOG for a few days and when it performes reliably
I'm going to reinstall Linux on it, giving it a little more then
it's previous 50MB disksize :)
Grtzzzzzzzzz Sandor Rabe
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