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General Schvantzkoph  
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 More options Aug 16 2004, 8:06 pm
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From: General Schvantzkoph <schvantzk...@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:06:35 -0400
Local: Mon, Aug 16 2004 8:06 pm
Subject: Re: Can I Add a New HD as a Fifth IDE Device?
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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:48:12 -0400, Tony Sivori wrote:
> So my questions are, if I buy a retail box HD (Western Digital, most
> likely) that is larger than 137 GB, shouldn't a drive that size come with
> a PCI IDE card in the box that will work even though my current IDE
> connectors are all in use?

The only drive manufacturer that bundles an ATA card is Maxtor, their
large drives come with a Promise card. However Maxtor drives are crap, get
a WD or Seagate and buy a Promise card.

> Will I be able to install additional Linux versions to

hdc and continue

You can install Linux anywhere, there is nothing special about the first
drive. When you do additional installs make sure that you put the
bootloaders on the root partition not the MBR. Do a chain load from the
bootloader on the MBR to the other bootloaders. Both LILO and GRUB can
chain load, here are some examples from one of my lilo.conf files.

other=/dev/hda1
        label="windows"
        table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/hda7
        label="mdk10amd"


 
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