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Re: Adding a second hard drive



try /dev/hdc instead


On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a second hard drive installed and in the Dell BIOS its seen as a 40
> Gig hard drive which is correct.
> 
> The system runs Debian Woody with kernel 2.4.17
> 
> When I try to partition the second hard drive using cf disk, all I see is
> the first hda drive...no sign at all of the second.
> 
> cfdisk /dev/hdb and cfdisk /dev/hdd both report "FATAL ERROR: Cannot open
> disk drive"
> 
> What do I need to do to partition and format the second drive?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Patrick
> 
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