[plug] partitioning question

Tony Clark tclark at telia.com
Sat Oct 26 01:28:42 WST 2002


When you boot the machine is the drive reported?  The only other thing I can 
suggest is I have had wierd problems sometimes when drives are on a port by 
themselves and linked as masters.  Try changing it to cable select.

tony

On Friday 25 October 2002 17.24, Lawrence Abbott wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just joined this list the other day. Please excuse my newbieness :)
> I've just installed an old 6G disk to do some file system comparisons
> on... and  cant see it.
> ie fdisk /dev/hdc gives
>  Unable to open /dev/hdc
> I can see fat32 partition on it if I boot into win98, and its definitely
> the master on second IDE slot.  What do I need to do?
> ....Perhaps someone can save me the trouble of running tests . I'm doing
> some home recording stuff with "ardour"  http://ardour.sourceforge.net
> and want to find out what file system type is the best for streaming
> audio data to/from ? XFS, ext3, etxt2, reiser? Anyone know of
> suitability/ performance comparisons between these?
>
> Running RedHat 7.3
>
> Thanks
> Lawrie Abbott
> (South Perth)

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