I have recently moved two 200gig maxtor drives into my fedora core 3 server. The first one is on the primary ide secondary and i plugged it in and i mounted hdb1 which was successful.

However after putting the second one in, on the boot screen linux recognises it is there and is drive hdc, however it does not appear in the /dev folder like all my other drives.

And when i try to mount it it says it cannot find hdc1
I have install the ntfs support and it works on the other drive, if anyone could help would be appreciated!

hi there

run

fdisk -l

to check what partitons are there

and then try mounting

regards

ah thanks for the reply, should have already mentioned

I have tried this but it the new drive (hdc) doesn't appear in this,


Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 9899 79409295 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 9900 9964 522112+ 82 Linux swap

Disk /dev/hdb: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 24792 199141708+ 7 HPFS/NTFS


any more ideas?

cheers

what do u get on

fdisk /dev/hdc

regards

sorry....


Unable to open /dev/hdc

is that a new hard disk??

Check the jumpering on the disk - and see if the BIOS actually sees the disk.

Another "issues"

Make sure it's got powere, and the plug is tightly inserted
Same for IDE cable.

Make sure you only have two IDE devices on each IDE chain......

If fdisk can't see it, then it's most likely not getting power....or it's conflicting with another device.

Niall.

well its a bout a week old.

I formatted it in windows..silly me and filled it with tv programs but i dont have a spare 200 gigs to move the stuff too to reformat.

Then i set up my server and decided to move them to it

bios see's it, hard disk is set up as a master, dvd drive is a slave.

in the boot up screen it shows hdc as a maxtor...bla bla bla

it just doesnt see it in fdisk.

have tried restarting but no luck still...

hi there

can u still access that in windows

also have u made that as a basic disk or dynamic disk??if u have formated that from winXP/200

regards

I think its a basic disk, the same format as the other one.

I havn't tried using it windows since but i hope it does! becos i'd b pretty upset loosing 200 gigs of tv !

formatting shouldn't matter.

Try moving it to a different IDE chain. Or, if you have a firewire/USB enclosure...put it in there.....

And you definitely want it jumpered as slave if it's not the only drive in the machine which from your other post, it's not.

Jumper it as slave....not CS.

What is in your current /etc/fstab. Make sure /dev/hdc is not being used by something else.

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# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
:/dev/hdc1 /mnt/drive2 ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/drive1 ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0




the line /dev/hdb1 is one i created for my other drive which works fine, and the line which is commented out /dev/hdc1 is the one i made for my next drive, however it just displays an error at boot if the comment is removed.

Cheers everyone for your help, much appreicated !!

i will try taking the dvd drive off the ide cable later, but ftp'ing a load of files for a couple of hours so can't turn it off!

Could you give a few more details rather than "bla bla bla?" Are you referring to a Fedora Core 3 boot screen or to your BIOS screen? (I suspect the latter, since FC3 does not normally list disk devices.)

Some suggestions:

First, can FC3 access the DVD drive? (If not, perhaps you have a real hardware [read "IDE controler"] problem.) If it can, create a XP boot floppy (On an XP system, it's one of the format options.), boot your server from that, and see if the drive is available from the DOS prompt. (Again, if not, I'd worry about the controler.) Another check: switch the two IDE cables at the controler, and see what happens. [I think FC3 will still find the boot device, but I'm not sure.]

Second, does your BIOS support S.M.A.R.T., and do you have it enabled for your IDE drives?

Third, if you boot from the Linux rescue CD (or DVD), is the drive visable there.

Fourth, the Linux NTFS drivers (unless you bought a commercial one) should only be used in "read-only" mode, so the "Logical Volume" (partition type 43, I think), is not usually relevant, and certainly not if the device is not yet recognized. In any case, the device should be recognized regardless what the partition type is set to.

Fifth. No, forget it: I was going to suggest looking at "parted," but that's only useful after the device is recognized.