[olug] Hard Drive Addition to a Compaq Deskpro

[Don E. Kauffman]

As I understand it, it has a SCSI port as well as a IDE drive. However since 
i've already got an extra 6.4G IDE drive, I thought I would use it rather 
than spring for a new one!

Thanks!

Dib 
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 01:42 pm, you wrote:
> Very important point Nick.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Walter [mailto:waltern at iivip.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:42 AM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: RE: [olug] Hard Drive Addition to a Compaq Deskpro
>
>
> Before you purchase a new hard drive for your Deskpro, make darn sure you
> know if you need a SCSI hard drive or an IDE hard drive.
>
> The easiest way to tell is to figure out the device name linux is referring
> to the drive as.  Using the mount command, you get output similar to the
> following:
>
> /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
>
> The above output is from one of my linux systems.  I can see from the
> output that my / and /boot partitions are on device /dev/sda.  If you only
> have one hard drive, it will be /dev/sda if it's SCSI and /dev/hda if it's
> IDE.
>
> Knowing what sort of hard drive to get is important if you don't want to
> waste any money ;-)
>
> Nick Walter
>
>
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