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." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Patrick Kirk'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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
>
> Telephone: 0870 011 8494
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> Web site: www.kirks.net
>
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