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<H1><font color="maroon">Adding a Second IDE Hard Drive to Your System</font></H1>
<H4>By <A HREF="mailto:thegrendel@theriver.com">Mendel Leo Cooper</A></H4>
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Consider the advantages of adding a second drive to your system. True,
replacing your present drive with a new, low cost, high capacity one
would seem a better alternative, but... If you can pick up a used 1.3
gig drive for a coupla bucks at a flea market or you local computer
dealer (he might have accepted it as a trade-in), then this is indeed
the cheapest way to upgrade your storage capacity. If you are planning
to update the kernel on a production system, but are afraid of breaking
some of your apps, then it is a simple matter to copy your entire ~/,
/etc, and /usr directories to the second drive, where they would remain
pristine and untouched by the upgrade. If a few hundred megs would tide
you over for a few months, until you finish paying off your new patio
or gambling debts, then save those bucks until next year, when 20 gig
IDE drives will be a loss leader at your local "Five 'n Dime".
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<LI>The physical mount.
<PRE>
Copy down the specs from the label on the drive.
Make sure it's jumpered as "slave".
Mount the drive in a spare drive bay, securing it with several screws.
Attach an IDE cable from the IDE port on the motherboard.
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<LI>Update the BIOS with the info for the new drive.
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It may autodetect, but don't count on it. Check the BIOS settings to make
certain. Setting the 'LBA' option not necessary.
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<LI>Partitioning.
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Boot up Linux and partition the new drive:
As root, fdisk /dev/hdb.
[primary partition, Linux native]
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<LI>Format the new drive.
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mke2fs -cv /dev/hdb1
[verbose output and check for bad blocks]
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<LI>Create a mount point.
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Decide where you will be mounting it and create a mount point.
For example, if you will mount it as /mnt/drive2, as root,
cd /mnt
mkdir drive2
chmod 777 drive 2
[makes the new drive accessible to ordinary users.]
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<LI>Testing.
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As root, mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/drive2.
If no error messages, cd /mnt/drive2, and try creating a directory and
writing a couple of files.
If it works, hurray!
Continue to the final steps.
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<LI>Modify /etc/fstab.
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Add the following line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/drive2 ext2 defaults 1 1
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<LI>Reboot and see if the new drive automounts.
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The <A
HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html">Hard-Disk-Upgrade
miniHOWTO</A>, by <A HREF="mailto:an@ottawa.com"> Yves Bellefeuille</A>
contains some of the above info, but in a somewhat different context. In
any case, the author of this article figured out how to do it mostly by
<I>trial and error</I> and read the miniHOWTO after the fact.
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