New Hard Drive installed

[Richard]

> 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
>>
>>

I see the 4 partition of hda1, hda2, hda3, hda4 nothing else.
Rich