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Other IDE Hard drives....
Posted by unicornrose on Fri 10 Feb 2006 at 11:10
I have my IDE Hardrives set to none except the one that I am running my debian Linux on. I know that during the loading phase in Linux it is finding my hard drives. May problem lies in the fact that once I get the desktop up I am unable to browse to my other hard drives. One of the other hard drives is formatted to be a Linux drive and the other drive is formatted as a windows drive because it has all my docs and pictures and music from before the change to Linux about a month or two ago. Anyway what do you recommend I can do to help my desktop or linux actually mount those drives so that I can actually browse to them and get to my documents?
I also am seeking more help with my sound card. I have managed to configure my card so that it is playing sounds that are system wide. However, it won't play midis and mp3s for some reason. I have a Soundblaster AWE64 card. When I look at my control panel on KDE I see that the soundblaster is marked at the 16bit midi device but the mp3s and midis are still not playing. I have ALSA installed on my machine. When giving me suggestions on either of my questions please take into consideration that when it comes to Linux I am very new at this and good instructions with some detail are preferable. If you can suggest some good links that are not like 10 years old that will help too. I am using 2.4.27-2-636 Debian Linux. I am pretty sure its Sarge not Woody unless that is one in the same but I was under the impression it was not...Anyway any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.
I also am seeking more help with my sound card. I have managed to configure my card so that it is playing sounds that are system wide. However, it won't play midis and mp3s for some reason. I have a Soundblaster AWE64 card. When I look at my control panel on KDE I see that the soundblaster is marked at the 16bit midi device but the mp3s and midis are still not playing. I have ALSA installed on my machine. When giving me suggestions on either of my questions please take into consideration that when it comes to Linux I am very new at this and good instructions with some detail are preferable. If you can suggest some good links that are not like 10 years old that will help too. I am using 2.4.27-2-636 Debian Linux. I am pretty sure its Sarge not Woody unless that is one in the same but I was under the impression it was not...Anyway any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.
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If your drives are recognized at boot time, then all you should have to do is mount them. Let's say you have two drives in your box, one master, one slave. The master is your current running linux drive. That drive would be /dev/hda. The slave that you are trying to access would be /dev/hdb. (if it's actually a master on the second ide controller it would be /dev/hdc).
so to mount it, you could just make a directory on the system where it will be mounted and then mount it.
mkdir /mnt/otherdrive
mount /dev/hdb /mnt/otherdrive
rinse and repeat for any other connected drive.
so to mount it, you could just make a directory on the system where it will be mounted and then mount it.
mkdir /mnt/otherdrive
mount /dev/hdb /mnt/otherdrive
rinse and repeat for any other connected drive.
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whoops. forgot to add...
For the windows formatted drive, you'll want to tell it to mount the filesystem type.
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /mnt/windowsdrive
If it's formatted as ntfs, you will need to mount it read only. Linux support for ntfs is still sketchy, and I think write access to ntfs is still experimental.
mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hdb /mnt/windowsdrive
For the windows formatted drive, you'll want to tell it to mount the filesystem type.
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /mnt/windowsdrive
If it's formatted as ntfs, you will need to mount it read only. Linux support for ntfs is still sketchy, and I think write access to ntfs is still experimental.
mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hdb /mnt/windowsdrive
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