10-28-2002
multidisk hardware
Hi Hachik,
Yeah, I see it with 2K & XP. I partitioned it into 2 x 37GB dynamic partitions but Mandrake 7.2 & 9.0 only see hda (2K's disc) and hdb (XP's disk). hda & hdb are both basic so I changed the 3rd drive to basic - no joy. Now it's back to dynamic. The 2K disk is listed (by Windows' computer management) as disk 1, XP's as disk 2, the 3rd as disk 0. The drive is working fine (as storage) and so is the card. Just not setup (or connected) to allow booting to it and so useless for what I want to do - load Mandrake 9. Hence the question: how do I set my box up (or what other card/controller do I need?) in order to make it bootable from all drives?
Regards
PS The bios lists the drive as hd0 and windows will not boot to it either. Hence the problem in configuration and/or card choice.
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WREN(3) Library Functions Manual WREN(3)
NAME
wren, ata - hard disk interface
SYNOPSIS
bind #H[drive] /dev
bind #w[target[.lun]] /dev
/dev/hd0disk
/dev/hd0partition
/dev/sd0disk
/dev/sd0partition
...
DESCRIPTION
The hard disk interfaces (wren, #w, is a SCSI disk; ata, #H, is an IDE or ATA disk) serve a one-level directory giving access to the hard
disk partitions. The parameter to attach defines the numerical SCSI target and logical unit number or the IDE drive number to access.
Both default to zero.
Each partition name is prefixed by hd and the numeric drive identifier. The partition always exists and covers the entire disk. The size
of each partition as reported by stat(2) is the number of bytes in the partition, so the size of is the size of the entire disk.
The partition also always exists; it is the last block on the disk for SCSI, second to last for IDE. If it contains valid partition data,
those partitions will be visible as well. Every time the device is bound, the partitions are updated to reflect any changes in the parti-
tion file.
The format of the partition file is the string
plan9 partitions
on a line, followed by partition specifications, one per line, consisting of a name and textual strings for the block start and limit for
each partition on the disk.
The program prep(8) writes the partition table for the disk; its use is preferred to writing it by hand.
SEE ALSO
prep(8), scsi(3)
SOURCE
/sys/src/9/port/devwren.c
/sys/src/9/pc/devata.c
WREN(3)