New Hard Drive installed

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 5/21/06, Richard <cms01 at tampabay.rr.com> 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.
>

does the kernel sees that hdb drive when the machine is booted?

You should be able to see something in the logs with the dmesg command:
  dmesg | grep hdb


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Daniel Robitaille