Fwd: hp dv9540 laptop second harddrive not detected

[James Takac]

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 09:40:57 Niels Larsen wrote:
> I am used to ide harddisks, and my new laptop has sata harddisks.
>
> It seems like my ubuntu 7.04 cannot autodetect the second internal
> harddisk?
>
> But gparted from live cd can detect it.
>
> I have also tried the "testdisk" program, and it cannot detect it neither?
>
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> Subject: hp dv9540 laptop second harddrive  not detected
> Date: Wednesday 29 August 2007
> From: Niels Larsen <bqz69 at telia.com>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> I am sorry, but I thought that I was talking to the list, but suddenly I am
> in private discussion, and that's not what I want - so I am a little
> confused? When I see a reply to my question, I automatically answer by
> "reply"? ***************
>
> Here I try to repeat my "thread", with same subject:
>
>
> My laptop is brand new!
>
> Regards Niels
>
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Hi Neils

My guess is this is the same thing that happened with my sata dvd drive a 
while back

Try the following

open a terminal window
sudo modprobe piix
sudo update initramfs

if you can now see your hdd then edit your /etc/modules file and add a line 
reading "piix" without the quotes of course

James