New Hard Drive installed

[Richard]

> 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