I am fairly new to the mythtv project and do not have a whole lot of Linux experience.
I have my Knoppmyth backend running on a PATA setup and everything works well. I recently found a 300 gb SATA drive that I am now trying to add to my setup. In order to get it to run I use a Silicon Image Sil-3112 PCI card.

The 300g hd is a Maxtor hd so I did not expect to see any problems in adding the hard drive.

Could someone please point me in the right direction on how I would go about adding the new hd? How to I know if the Debian even recognizes the hd?

Any thoughts/ links etc would be greatly appreciated.

Have a great day!!

Install the hardware and reboot. It should see it (check to make sure that your BIOS sees it first). Look at the log files in /var/log to see if it was detected. Then you can do an LVM setup. Note that you'll need to tweak the init script to load the appropriate SATA module before the lvm module.

tjc,

thank you very much for your help. what file in /var/log am I looking for?
I opened the syslog and did not see any entries.

thanks again for your help!!

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cesman

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Oh crud. Sorry, I didn't even see which forum this was posted too, since I'm trying to answer questions while doing testing...

Bad newbie! Off topic post! No more answers here! Expect thread to vanish!

It has been moved... Feel free to answer if you choose..

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I tried fcdisk on hdb, hdc etc. as well as sda, sdb and did not find any hard drive. I am totally stuck. Is there anything else u could recommend doing?

I would really appreciate any help you could provide.

Thanks!!

let me correct my previous post!! I do not see any additional hard drive I do see the PATA drive on hda with its 4 partitions.

cfdisk /dev/sda

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I have tried cfdisk /dev/sda and the system does not find a hd.
Any other suggestions?

Does your BIOS see it? That was one of the first questions we asked and you never answered. If the BIOS doesn't see it all bets are off.

after spending several hours of research. it turns out that the motherboard does not support a 300g HD.
thanks for everyone's help!!
have a great day and keep up the great work

hi. i have my box running with a 20GB pata because i couldnt run the autosetup with an SATA drive. I have the 200GB drive hooked up, but i am a total linuz noob and have no clue whatsoever how to make my mythtv box also be able to use the other HD for additional storage. Please help anyone. Once again, i am very very very very inexpeianceed so any steps you can provide would be GREATLY APPRECIATED! Thanks again
~Eric~