Chapter 18: Adding hard disks

Table of contents

• Chapter 18: Adding hard disks
  • Supported hard disk configurations
  • Adding secondary hard disks
  • Configuring a SCSI hard disk
  • Installing a hard disk
    • Changing default disk parameters using dkinit
    • Partitioning a hard disk using fdisk
    • Scanning a disk for defects using badtrk
    • Dividing a disk partition into divisions using divvy
  • Overcoming BIOS limitations
    • Defining IDE and ESDI disk geometry in the BIOS
    • Overriding the root disk geometry stored in the BIOS
    • Writing a new masterboot block
    • BIOS support for disks larger than 1024 cylinders
  • Configuring IDE disks and disk controllers
  • Replacing the root hard disk
    • Configuring the root hard disk
  • Troubleshooting hard disks
    • Fixing bad tracks and bad blocks on hard disks
    • Setting hard disk interleave
    • Formatting hard disks