First, you need to know where the new drive is. /dev/hdc is the IDE
secondary master; /dev/hdd is the IDE secondary slave. If fdisk doesn't see
it, I can only guess that you have this part wrong. If that's not it, you'll
need to tell us more detail about the hardware setup and the EXACT fdisk
problem you are seeing.
Also, watch your onscreen messages during the boot/init process. Notice if
the kernel reports detecting the drive there, and if so, what IDE line it
finds it on.
As to your mount attempts ... you can't mount drives, only filesystems. You
need to go through the steps of creating partitions (using fdisk or cfdisk)
and putting filesystems on them (using mke2fs or mkfs.ext2) before you can
mount them. Then you mount a partition (e.g., /dev/hdc1) not a drive (e.g.,
/dev/hdc).
You have the mount command wrong too; you need to tell mount *where* to
mount it. You do this by specifying a mount point (essentially, an empty
directory on an already mounted filesystem). Example:
mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt
To set up your system so it will mount the new partitions automatically on
reboot, edit the entries in /etc/fstab -- for details, consult the man page
or just emulate the pattern of the entries that are already there.
At 06:19 PM 3/17/00 -0700, John Starkey wrote:
>Hello everyone.
>
>I just added a Maxtor 20 gig HD to my system. I have 2 - 1 gig drives
>already. How do I get linux to see it so I can format and mkfs it????
>
>I set it up in CMOS so I know it physically and electronically there.
>But fdisk doesn't see it and I can't
>
>mount /dev/hdc
>
>This one is totally new to me. I also checked the multiple disk HOWTO
>and I didn't find anything on how to mount a brand new disk.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
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Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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