by ASCII of Ameri » Wed, 16 Nov 1994 10:41:11
I have tried recompiling my kernel, to no avail.
I have tried formatting the drive from DOS, but Linux still can't see
it.
What do I have to do to get Linux to recognize my second drive?
Please help,
Dave
by Doug Pickerin » Wed, 16 Nov 1994 16:35:21
Have you used MAKEDEV yet?
cd /dev
MAKEDEV hdb
(This is from memory)
Doug Pickering
by Mark Lo » Wed, 16 Nov 1994 23:36:52
Hi. I take care of the harddisk driver(s) for linux.
I also have a WD31000 (1Gig) in my system which works perfectly,
as either the first, second, or third drive in the system.
What is your first drive? (output of hdparm -i /dev/hda)
-ml
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by ASCII of Ameri » Thu, 17 Nov 1994 07:42:30
I just found my invoice, and it says
HARD DISK 540MB IDE 12MS
(MAXTOR 7540AV)
Is this OK?
Dave
by ASCII of Ameri » Thu, 17 Nov 1994 07:30:52
ML>What is your first drive? (output of hdparm -i /dev/hda)
I could not find the "hdparm" command. I even did a "find / -name hdparm -print",
to no avail.
My first drive is a 540 MB unknown-to-me installed at Pixel USA where I bought my P90.
Dave
1. Why "fdisk /dev/hdb1" works but not "fdisk /dev/hdb"!?
Hi,
I am trying to make linux partitions on an empty second 170MB
Hard drive. The drive has been low-level formatted, with
no partitions, and dos fdisk reports everything correct. I
boot from slackware diskettes, and boot msg says:
check partitions:
hda: /dev/hda1
hdb: bad partition table
Of course, "fdisk /dev/hdb" does not work, nor "fdisk /dev/hdb1".
(err msg: Unable to read /dev/hdxx). Suprisingly, fdisk /dev/hda
also gives the same message.
Now, I go back to dos, create and dos format a 16MB partition on
the second hard drive. Boot under slackware, and boot msg says:
check partitions:
hda: /dev/hda1
hdb: /dev/hdb1
Now, "fdisk /dev/hdb" still gives "unable to read /dev/hdb" msg,
but "fdisk /dev/hdb1" allows me into fdisk. Unfortunately, it
gives total garbage when I print out contents of partition table
within fdisk (/dev/hdb11 through /dev/hdb12 are all defined with
physical/logical boundry errors). But as "fdisk /dev/hdb1"
should not work, as /dev/hdb1 is a partition and not a device,
I am not suprised. But why does fdisk try to operate on a
partition, but not let me operate on the device /dev/hdb????
Help! At wit's end... Any suggestions appreciated, as I am
getting nowhere. I just want to create linux partitions
on my second hard drive (and I have no problems creating dos
partitions on that drive, so the drive seems to be recognized
find...).
thanks in advance,
Brad Miller
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