Re: Adding a second hard drive THANK YOU!!
here are some more tips
ide 0 master is hda
ide 0 slave is hdb
ide 1 master is hdc
ide 1 slave is hdd
u must know wether your hd is master or slave and if its in ide0 ( primary
)
or in ide 1 ( secondary )
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:
>
> zulfiqar:~# dmesg |grep hd
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: WDC AC24300L, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
> hda: 8421840 sectors (4312 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=524/255/63, UDMA(33)
> hdc: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1820KiB Cache, CHS=77557/16/63, UDMA(33)
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
> hdc: unknown partition table
>
>
> THANK YOU!!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kurc, Marcin A." <makurc@cooperstandard.com>
> To: "'Patrick Kirk'" <patrick@kirks.net>
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:15 AM
> Subject: RE: Adding a second hard drive
>
>
> > what does 'dmesg |grep hd' show?
> >
> >
> > Marcin Kurc
> > CAD Systems Administrator
> > Cooper-Standard Automotive
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick Kirk [mailto:patrick@kirks.net]
> > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 7:12 PM
> > To: Debian User
> > Subject: Adding a second hard drive
> >
> >
> > 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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