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+<html>
+ <head>
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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+ <title>6.&nbsp;Disk Detection and Configuration</title>
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+ <link rel="prev" href="selectKeyboard.html" title="5.&nbsp;Configuring the Keyboard">
+ <link rel="next" href="doPartitionDisks.html" title="7.&nbsp;Partitioning your Disk">
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+ <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div class="navheader">
+ <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header">
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" align="center">6.&nbsp;Disk Detection and Configuration</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="selectKeyboard.html">Prev</a>&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <th width="60%" align="center">&nbsp;</th>
+ <td width="20%" align="right">&nbsp;<a accesskey="n" href="doPartitionDisks.html">Next</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr>
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+ <div lang="" class="section" title="6.&nbsp;Disk Detection and Configuration">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="drakxid-setupSCSI"></a>6.&nbsp;Disk Detection and Configuration
+ </h2>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-setupSCSI-pa1"></a><span class="application">DrakX</span> will first
+ detect any <a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakxid-setupSCSI-it1"></a> <acronym class="acronym">IDE</acronym> devices present in your computer. It will
+ also scan for one or more <a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakxid-setupSCSI-it2"></a><a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakxid-setupSCSI-it3"></a>
+ <a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakxid-setupSCSI-it4"></a><acronym class="acronym">PCI</acronym>
+ <acronym class="acronym">SCSI</acronym> cards on your system. If a <acronym class="acronym">SCSI</acronym> card is found, <span class="application">DrakX</span>
+ will automatically install the appropriate driver.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-setupSCSI-pa2"></a>Because hardware
+ detection is not foolproof, <span class="application">DrakX</span> may fail in detecting
+ your hard drives. If so, you'll have to specify your hardware by
+ hand.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-setupSCSI-pa3"></a>If you had to manually
+ specify your <acronym class="acronym">PCI</acronym> <acronym class="acronym">SCSI</acronym> adapter, <span class="application">DrakX</span> will ask if you
+ want to configure options for it. You should allow <span class="application">DrakX</span>
+ to probe the hardware for the card-specific options which are
+ needed to initialize the adapter. Most of the time, <span class="application">DrakX</span>
+ will get through this step without any issues.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-setupSCSI-pa4"></a>If <span class="application">DrakX</span>
+ is not able to probe for the options to automatically determine
+ which parameters need to be passed to the hardware, you'll need
+ to manually configure the driver.
+ </p>
+
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="navfooter">
+ <hr>
+ <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="selectKeyboard.html">Prev</a>&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td width="20%" align="center">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td width="40%" align="right">&nbsp;<a accesskey="n" href="doPartitionDisks.html">Next</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">5.&nbsp;Configuring the Keyboard&nbsp;</td>
+ <td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td>
+ <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;7.&nbsp;Partitioning your Disk</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </body>
+</html>