Problem with partitioning HD on second IDE controller

Paran0id · 05-16-2006, 09:32 AM

Hello,

I've installed my second IDE controller on my motherboard (Promise Ultra133 TX2 ATA), I've added an extra HD on the controller, and my kernel detects the hardisk on bootup

Quote:

server:/proc# cat /var/log/kern.log | grep hdi
May 16 15:03:05 server kernel: ide4: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hdi

io, hdj

io
May 16 15:03:05 server kernel: hdi: WDC WD400BB-00DEA0, ATA DISK drive
May 16 15:03:05 server kernel: hdi: max request size: 128KiB
May 16 15:03:05 server kernel: hdi: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
May 16 15:03:05 server kernel: hdi: cache flushes not supported
May 16 15:03:05 server kernel: hdi: hdi1 hdi2 < hdi5 >

When i'm trying to cfdisk my new disk it does not appear to be shown in /dev (/dev/hdi)

Quote:

server:/proc# cfdisk /dev/hdi

FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive

Please help me out.

Greetings,
Tom.

jmeads · 05-16-2006, 09:56 AM

it's there, just in a different place, have a look in

/dev/ide/host0/bus8/target0/lun0 (or something similar) you may need to create a symlink to this, have a look to see how /dev/hda is done

if your running udev, should should be able to ammend the cfg to do this on boot

Paran0id · 05-16-2006, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmeads

it's there, just in a different place, have a look in

/dev/ide/host0/bus8/target0/lun0 (or something similar) you may need to create a symlink to this, have a look to see how /dev/hda is done

if your running udev, should should be able to ammend the cfg to do this on boot

Hmm i've tried to search in /dev/ide but that folder doesn't exist on my system. My other harddisks are detected correctly (till hdh)

Paran0id · 05-17-2006, 04:14 PM

hmm no one, who can help me out with this?