Adding a hard drive
 

I'm trying to add a hard drive to my Red Hat 7.3 system. It is on the second IDE channel, and I used to have a CD writer there before that has been removed. The CD recorder worked fine; and now it is having trouble with the hard drive. When I type "dring", it says "hdc:driver not present". Any thoughts on to make it work?

Thanks, Scott

Did you remove SCSI emulation from the bootloader for the CDwriter?

Hmmm no, would I have to do that in GRUB?

Thanks,
Scott

Yep.

Thank you very much, I'll give it a try.

Scott

OK that part works- I was able to partition it and format it, but when I mount it it says read only filesystem, and it's full? I tried to change the permissions as root, and it could not do it. Now what am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Scott

So explain the steps. How did you partition, format etc.

OK I used fdisk to patition the drive- one partition, hdc1. Then I formatted using mkfs, as ext2 filesystem. I then tried to mount it under the mount directory, which went well, but when I use df it says that hdc1 is full, and when I look at mtab, it says that the filesystem is vfat. Is the system still looking at it like it's a CD-ROM, causing it to say it is full and read only?

Thanks so much...
Scott

Did you mount it as an ext2 filesystem? i.e.

mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/<your_mount_point>

Is this as root or a user?

OK well then I might start from scatch now- when I tried what you said, I got the reply:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1, or too many mounted filesystems.

Then, trying to mount as I did before:
/dev/hdc1: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Thanks,
Scott

OK well now it seems to be working...I did a re-boot just to re-set everything, and it works! Thanks so much for your help!

Scott