adding IDE Controller to RedHat 9 on i686

From: Alexander Povolotsky (pevnev_at_juno.com)
Date: 10/31/04

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    I have Linux Red Hat 9 on Pentium III PC (Dell Optiplex 110, 848 Mhz, 128 Mb of memory )running off the 8 Gb Disk Drive; there is also small boot drive on that IDE controller.

    I ran out of disk space on that 8 Gb disk drive.

    There is also another IDE controller for the CD-ROM.
    I added 20 GB Maxtor Gb IDE Hard Disk drive to the existing controller -
    it works OK.

    So now I have:

    [root@localhost root]# mount
    /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
    none on /proc type proc (rw)
    usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
    /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
    none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
    none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
    /dev/hdb1 on /opt type ext3 (rw)

    [root@localhost root]# df -k
    Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/hda2 7930044 6670732 856484 89% /
    /dev/hda1 101089 9362 86508 10% /boot
    none 62356 0 62356 0% /dev/shm
    /dev/hdb1 20034700 1669424 17347560 9% /opt

    But I need even more disk space ...

    I bought SIIG UltraATA 100 PCI Controller and 80 Gb
    Western Digital IDE disk drive - how could I add this new controller
    with this new disk drive and make existing Linux
    recognize this new drive as additional disk space ?
    Is SIIG UltraATA 100 PCI Controller
    supported by RedHat 9 ? If yes, do I need to do something specific
    (like compiling module ? - if yes - could it be 'dynamically loadable
    module' or the module should be statically compiled into the kernel ? -
    are steps to be performed documented someplace on-line ?).

    Somebody told me that 'SIIG's IDE controller is a bad choice for
    Linux Red Hat 9 and that the IDE UltraATA 100 PCI Controller Model "ULTRA100 TX2from 'Promise' is better supported by RedHat 9 - is it true ? If yes, again, do I need to do something specific (like compiling module ? - if yes - could it be 'dynamically loadable module' or the module should be statically compiled into the kernel ?

    I also was told that tsome motherboards would not support more than 32 Gb drive - how could I check what my motherboard limit is?

    Thanks,
    Alex

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