Subject: Re: Mounting ATA Drive with Sonnet Tempo
iain@iainstevenson.com
Date: Sat Aug 11 2001 - 10:34:59 MDT
Sorry - I meant /dev/hdb - I'll apply for remedial typing lessons ;-)
Iain
> Iain Stevenson writes:
>
>>
>> Christian,
>>
>> I have a Sonet ATA card in my Mac. The boot messages aren't terribly
>> helpful other than to provide confirmation that the driver is loading
>> OK. I assume that the Sonnet card is the only IDE host in your
>> system.
>>
>> You need to do pdisk -l /dev/hda (or pdisk -l /dev/sdb if the drive's
>> on
>> the other connector). This will give you the partition map for the
>> drive. If you formatted the drive under MACOS you should see something
>> like:
> <SNIP>
>
> This isn't TOTALLY correct. If the machine is a pre-G3 machine,
> /dev/sdb will look for the second drive on the SCSI bus, not anything
> on the Sonnet card. Anything that's /dev/sd<anything> is looking for
> SCSI disks, not IDE disks. It will be /dev/hd<something> most likely.
>
>
> Without looking at the boot messages, you can't tell what address the
> drive is going to have. It could be anything.
>
> Bryn
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