SATA Upgrade (re-post after HW problem was resolved)

Verde Denim tdldev at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 01:45:40 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com> wrote:

>
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> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok - So after all the fiasco of the crazy hardware issues with bad media
>> vs bad iso vs bad hardware vs PEBKAC,
>> I have Ubuntu 7.10 server (LAMP) runninig on a Dell Dimension 4500 with
>> the following:
>> 80GB IDE (Ubu is installed here)
>>
>> Silicon SATA 3512 SATA I card
>> 500GB SATA drive (Dr. 0)
>> 400GB SATA drive (Dr. 1)
>>
>> During the install, I was asked if I wanted to install Ubuntu on the 80 or
>> the 500 GB disc (at the time, it didn't see the second drive).
>> When the machine boots, both drives are seen during startup.
>> After Ubuntu is up and I login, I can see /dev/sda1 is the 80GB IDE, but
>> no others.
>>
>> I'd like to get these drives fdisked and set up for use, but am not sure
>> how. I'm googling at the moment, but if anyone can throw some information or
>> urls my way it might shorten up the search.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
>>
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> Look here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DrivesAndPartitions
>
> cheers
>

The problem here is this - looking in hwinfo and lshw, I have /dev/sda (the
IDE drive), and /dev/sdb (the 500GB SATA), but the second SATA drive (which
I would have guessed would be /dev/sdc) is not found on the system. Can I
create this manually ?

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