[nmglug] Using Media Bay Devices In Dell 600m With Fedora Core 3

[Gary Sandine]

Hi.

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 05:32:54PM -0600, William D. Nystrom wrote:
...
> So, I got the idea of pulling the hard drive out of
> it and putting it in the media bay hard drive caddy for the 600m so that I
> could boot up and mount it and just copy files over.  However, I have not
> been able to get this to work.  I've made sure that the BIOS is set up so
> that I am not trying to boot from this media bay hard drive.  Am I missing
> something?

Can you elaborate on "not been able to get this to work"?

What have you tried?  Any error messages?

Does the system boot at all with the media bay hard drive
installed?  If so, what does

$ ls /proc/ide/

report?

-- 
Gary Sandine <gars at laclinux.com>