Adding and using another hard disk

Greebstreebling · 12-15-2005, 04:27 AM

Dear folks, I have now successfully set up my Debian system and things are starting to go well (shouldn't say that...)

I'm using kernel 2.6 and have another IDE drive which has windows 98 on it and some datafiles I'd like to access from Linux. I've configured the drives as master (the linux debian dist.) and slave using the jumpers and the m/c bios recognises this. The system boots ok into debian. The other drive runs up but I can't see it from Linux.

Is there anything I need to do please?

Thanks a lot,
Greeb

fouldsy · 12-15-2005, 04:44 AM

Let us know what mount options you are providing.

Create a directory such as /mnt/windows, then you should simply do "mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows" which should pick up the first partition of your slave drive on the primary controller (what a mouthful!).

Also, which user are you trying to mount as? You could at "-t vfat" to manually tell mount the filesyste, but it should be able to figure out it's FAT32 on its own.

master_boy · 12-15-2005, 05:39 AM

Hi Greebstreebling,

Try this command (in terminal [konsole] window): dmesg |grep hd
It will give you information about attached drives (IDE/ATA...). You must first find what is your HDD name (hdaXX - first HDD on first IDE channel on you MB, hdbXX - second HDD on first IDE channel, [XX - number of partition] ), then you could use fouldsy's instructions

Best wishes!

master_boy

Greebstreebling · 12-15-2005, 08:38 AM

Thanks guys - will try out tonite and get back...
Greeb

Greebstreebling · 12-20-2005, 11:06 AM

Thanks a lot - it worked a treat.

master_boy · 12-21-2005, 02:19 PM

Not at all