New Hard Drive installed

[Steven Heimann]

sudo fdisk -l
will list devices and partitions.

What is the /dev/hdc below?  Is that your new drive or perhaps your
cdrom?
Is the disk recognised by the bios at boot up?  Do you perhaps need to
enable it somehow in the bios?

You said the drive is a slave.  Are you sure it is configured as a slave
or cable select by the dip switches?

Good luck
Steven



On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 22:50 -0400, Richard wrote:
> > On 5/21/06, Richard <cms01 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Have a second hard drive hdb (slave)
> >> however, can't see the listing in/dev?
> > 
> > 
> > How do you know that this drive is hdb if you dont see a listing under 
> > /dev?
> > Try: ls /dev/hd* to see what's listed there. Or if it';s recognized as
> > SCSI look under /dev/sd*
> > 
> >> can't find it, however its there and running
> >> so, how does one mount and format the new second drive,
> >> that will be used for backups, and storage.
> > 
> > 
> > Try 'sudo fdisk /dev/hdb' or use gparted or qtparted to write a
> > partition table to that drive, divide it up, then get it formatted.
> > 
> > Seth
> > 
> Seth,
> This is what I got
> ls /dev/hd*
> /dev/hda  /dev/hda1  /dev/hda2  /dev/hda5  /dev/hdc
> 
> The second drive is a slave drive it should be hdb, but I don't see?
> very odd.
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
>