New Hard Drive installed

[Richard]

> 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.
>>
> I notice that you have a /dev/hdc.  Do you have a CD or DVD drive on the 
> secondary controller?  Is your new hard drive on the same cable as the 
> old one, or a separate cable?  Final question, if they are on the same 
> cable, are you certain that the new and old drives are set up correctly?
> 
> To put some more information with that last question, IDE hard drives 
> usually have jumpers which determine whether they should be a master, 
> slave, or cable select.  If these jumpers are set incorrectly, the drive 
> will not be recognized.
> 
> One last thing that I just remembered.  I just put a large drive in an 
> old computer recently.  I needed to set a jumper which caused the drive 
> to tell the BIOS that it was only a 32GB drive.  Otherwise the BIOS 
> would not recognize the drive, and thus I couldn't access it.  To ensure 
> that your BIOS can see the drive, watch the bios boot up sequence.  At 
> some point it will list the devices on the IDE bus.  If the new drive 
> isn't there, you won't be able to see it with any operating system, even 
> though it has power, and is spinning.
> 
> -Matt
> 
> 


Hi Matt,
shut, and removed drive, jumpers are correct,
and I did in-fact wipe the drive, when install Linux on Mac,
being that it was the second drive, ( Unbuntu) gives no method
of formating two drives, you pick one.

Rich