I am using FC1.

I have installed a new drive on the secondary channel.

dmesg reveals:
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VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:11.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc: pio, hdd: DMA
hda: WDC WD1600JB-00DUA3, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD800JB-00ETA0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c0408880, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c04089c0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdd: WDC WD2500JB-00GVA0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c0408e1c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: hdb1
hdd:end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 6
unable to read partition table
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I am unable to
fdisk /dev/hdd
in order to write a new partition table. It fails with unable to open /dev/hdd

What can I do to access this drive?

Thanks!

Are the drive jumpers configured correctly?

The drive was configured as a slave without a master. I moved it to master and that corrected the problem.

THanks