I'd suggest looking at dmesg for lines like the following: hda: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
or whatever your hardware is. If it's not there, Linux hasn't recognised it. If it is there, check that it actually is hdc, it could have been given a different device node. When you say you tried running an installation disk, could you give more details? Linux installation? Distro? Kernel version? What device did it recognise it as? On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:20:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a new hard drive that I did a an additional drive. The bios > recognizes the drive. So I figured the next step is to use fdisk and > create partitions, but it did not work. Here is what I did. > > login as: root > Password: > Last login: Tue Aug 3 02:17:17 2004 > [s1]:~ # fdisk /dev/hdc > > Unable to open /dev/hdc > [s1]:~ # > > This is the master on the secondary controller. I tried running an > installation disk and it recognized it no problem. What steps am I > missing to get this to work. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]