New Hard Drive installed

[Richard]

> On 5/21/06, Richard <cms01 at tampabay.rr.com> 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.
>>
> 
> does the kernel sees that hdb drive when the machine is booted?
> 
> You should be able to see something in the logs with the dmesg command:
>  dmesg | grep hdb
> 
> 
Scratch that, oops of the video display wehn running that command,
I get nothing... listed.