hardrive

citrus · 01-18-2004, 04:27 AM

ok well i just put a new hardrive in my mandrake machine i went to then hardwaredection and it found my hard drive hdb it says
i went to diskdrake to partiation it and its not there

what do i do ??

anotherthing when i do get that harddrive working properly where is it located?

mandrake 9.1 KDE

Crashed_Again · 01-18-2004, 04:40 AM

Try doing:

fdisk -l

That should show your drives. The second hard drive will be hdb as your hardware detection said. I never used diskdrake before so I don't know what the problem is there. You can always create the partitions on your second hard drive using fdsik.

ac1980 · 01-18-2004, 04:48 AM

Quote:

i went to diskdrake to partiation it and its not there

You can try running (as root)

Code:

fdisk /dev/hdb

At least you'll know if it a system or diskdrake problem.
You may also crate a partition directly with fdisk, since the disk is empty you don't face any risk!

Quote:

anotherthing when i do get that harddrive working properly where is it located?

You will have to specify a mountpoint, either by manually editing /etc/fstab or maybe via diskdrake (It's been a while since I last used mdk: too messy.)

trickykid · 01-18-2004, 09:35 AM

Moved: Hardware questions belong in Hardware forum.