hard drive not detected
 

i have a maxtor 250 gig drive attached to my secondary ide cable.
it isnt showing up on a fdisk -l.
here is some of my mesg:

Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: MAXTOR 6L060J3, ATA DISK drive
hdd: probing with STATUS(0x10) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x50)
hdd: probing with STATUS(0x10) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x51)
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 117266688 sectors (60041 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=7299/255/63, UDMA(133)
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 < hdb5 > hdb4

the hard drive hdd i assume.
any ideas

Did you replace a CDROM drive connected to the 2nd controller / slave with a hard drive?

If so, delete the hdd=ide-scsi from the boot loader config file. If using lilo be sure to run it before rebooting.

What distro are you running?
It appears there are partitions on the second drive.
Is there a version of linux on the 2nd drive?
If so what version of linux is on it?

Depending on your answers.
Do you need the data on the 2nd drive?

Brian1
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michaelk you were right. it works now. thanks for the quick response.