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 GSM: 07876 560 646 Web site: www.kirks.net
Re: Adding a second hard drive
try /dev/hdc instead On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote: 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 GSM: 07876 560 646 Web site: www.kirks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding a second hard drive THANK YOU!!
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 GSM: 07876 560 646 Web site: www.kirks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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. [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 GSM: 07876 560 646 Web site: www.kirks.net -- 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]
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Now that its all working nicely, I've added the new partitions to fstab like so: /dev/hdc1 /home/engineering ext3 rw 0 2 /dev/hdc3 /home/data ext3rw 0 2 Is this correct or should I use defaults,errors=remount-ro instead of rw? Not a life or death question (I think) but advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
Re: Adding a second hard drive THANK YOU!!
Patrick Kirk writes: Now that its all working nicely, I've added the new partitions to fstab like so: /dev/hdc1 /home/engineering ext3 rw 0 2 /dev/hdc3 /home/data ext3rw 0 2 Is this correct or should I use defaults,errors=remount-ro instead of rw? You may want nosuid,nodev, depending on your needs. Andrew.
Re: Adding a second hard drive THANK YOU!!
begin Patrick Kirk quotation: Now that its all working nicely, I've added the new partitions to fstab like so: /dev/hdc1 /home/engineering ext3 rw 0 2 /dev/hdc3 /home/data ext3rw 0 2 Is this correct or should I use defaults,errors=remount-ro instead of rw? I think rw should be fine for home directories. I only use errors=remount-ro for the root fs (might make sense for /usr also). Craig pgp579hqwgTT8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Adding a second hard drive
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 04:09:53PM +, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: try /dev/hdc instead On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote: 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 GSM: 07876 560 646 Web site: www.kirks.net -- 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] does the BIOS recognize the drive? if so, is it primary/secondary? -- When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. --Sherlock Holmes _The Sign of Four_
