Very Computer

I am new to Linux and have recently installed the Slackware distribution on
to my system.

I have two hard drives.

The first is a 1.7GB Quantum drive which has Windows 95 installed
The second is a 250MB Quantum drive which has two partitions (Linux Swap
and Linux Native)

The problem?

When I attempt to mount the first drive Linux does not recognise the drive
and returns an error about a Bad Superblock.

I am using LILO as a startup boot menu. The first drive is an EIDE drive
which requires the Quantum Ontrack driver to be loaded in order to access
the full 1.7GB.

Is this the root of my problem or am I way off here?

Would appreciate any help with this problem

says...

Quote:

>I am new to Linux and have recently installed the Slackware distribution on
>to my system.

--
James Youngman       VG Gas Analysis Systems |The trouble with the rat-race
 Before sending advertising material, read   |is, even if you win, you're
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html|still a rat.

:
: You need a fairly recent Linux kernel to cope with the lossage caused by
: OnTrack.  I installed Red Hat Linux 4.0 on a firend's machine which had OnTrack
: and that worked fine (I wasn't even aware it had it until afterward!).
:
: --
: James Youngman       VG Gas Analysis Systems |The trouble with the rat-race
:  Before sending advertising material, read   |is, even if you win, you're
: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html|still a rat.
:

Is there anything special that needs to be done in order to make use of the
OnTrack driver? The documentation concerning this feature is rather sparse.
I haven't tried it out yet as I'm having difficulties compiling a new kernel :<
2.0.25, and I'm currently running 1.2.13.

Phil.