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Old 01-28-2003, 09:52 PM   #1
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can't mount harddisks in separated IDE cable


Dear all,

In my home computer, I connected two harddisks in two separated IDE channels (i.e. the first HD in primary IDE, the second HD in secondary IDE).

But I found that I can't mount the secondary HD.


When I changed to plug the second HD to be a slave HD in the primary IDE, then I can successfully mount it.


Why I can mount the separated IDE HD??? or I have any mistake?
 
Old 01-28-2003, 09:58 PM   #2
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How are you trying to mount it? It's probably going to be hdc now, whereas it was hdb before.

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Old 01-28-2003, 10:02 PM   #3
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Jumper misconfiguration? - Check the jumpers.
Wrong mount device. - How are you mounting the drive?
Bad cable - Switch cables.
Bad secondary controller. - Check BIOS setup, boot log.

That's about all I can offer until you -provide some more information.
 
Old 01-28-2003, 10:36 PM   #4
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Oh, I don't know why.
This time the problem gets disappeared. But the setting is the same.

Anyway, thanks for all very much.
 
Old 01-29-2003, 12:30 AM   #5
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Ohhhhh, is it the problem....

If I go to mount a harddisk that didn't format before (e.g. a totally new HD), could I mount it??
 
Old 01-29-2003, 04:44 AM   #6
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Not easily. You will usually need to partition and format the drive first. To see if there are already partitions use 'fdisk -l' Then you may be able to simply create a filesystem on the premade partitions.

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