hdb1 hdb
added 2nd hd( slave) and fdisking it.........
here's what i'm getting fdisk /dev/hdb nothing. fdisk /dev/hdb1 i get the fdisk menu, and i can partiition the drive after partioning, fdisk -l shows partitions as hdb1p1 hdb1p2 etc.... whats the difrence between the 2 ? thanks |
/devhdb is a drive hdb1 is a partition on that drive. If you are further sub-deviding a partition then it will assign it as p1 and so on.
Is your second hd on the primary channel still? If so, try fdisk -l first to see if it's getting recognized. If not, check your BIOS to see if it's getting recognized, then come back into Linux and run fdisk -l again. If it's there now, you should be able to use fdisk /dev/hdb to edit/create partitions on the new drive. Cool |
thanks master
primary channel ? it's jumper is set to slave, and on ide1, with master drive hda bios shows it as primary slave fdisk -l shows hda info.. hdb "Unable to seek on /dev/hdb if i do fdisk -1 /dev/hdb1 i get drive info |
Check your /var/log/messages and dmesg for info on what's wrong with recognizing this disk. If you've got questions, post it up or at least the relevant sections.
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here's a portion of my log, of what i though was relevant.... now i've removed all partitions on hdb1, before this post. Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo kernel: HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo kernel: ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo kernel: hda: IC35L060AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo kernel: hdb: IC35L040AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo kernel: hda: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=7476/255/63, UDMA(100) Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo kernel: hdb: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=5005/255/63, UDMA(100) Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo rc: Starting pcmcia: succeeded Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo kernel: Partition check: Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 > Feb 17 19:38:00 nemo kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 > after pasting the above, i did a fdisk /dev/hdb1 2 3 4.... and then 5, and it starts. so if i use hdb1 or hdb5 fdisk runs/see's drive |
But fdisk /dev/hdb returns an error? What's the error it returns?
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"Unable to seek on /dev/hdb if i do a fdisk /dev/hdb1 or fdisk /dev/hdb5 i get the fdisk menu |
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No it's not fancy, it's setup as slave, on ide1
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:confused: I have never known fdisk not to see the whole drive with fdisk /dev/hdb -l. :confused:
Try downloading Ranish Partition Manager and see if you can partition with that. If that fails, see if you can find the IBM utility to low level format the drive. |
Fancy, is RanishPM designed for linux? If so, how would one compile it?
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It works from a bootable Windows floppy and I think the new release works from the hard drive from a dos window.
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thanks fancy,
drive is all partition'd ! part is a sweet prog ! |
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