Problem recognizing hard drive
 

I am running RH9, with a 2.6.7 kernel. Dual booting Win2K and linux.

Windows is the master on IDE channel 1
Linux is the slave on IDE channel 1

I have a data drive that is NTFS that I wan't both OSes to be able to see. It is the Master on IDE channel 2, and the cdrom is slave on IDE channel 2.

When I boot into windows, I can see it fine (why can't linux be this easy?)

I am pretty familiar with mounting and stuff like that, but I am realizing that linux cannot even see the drive.

I am pretty positive that it is on /dev/hdc, because /dev/hdd is the cdrom.

But I would like to make absolutely sure, because when I do:

# fdisk /dev/hdc

I get:

# Unable to open /dev/hdc

How can I determine what device is mapped to this hard drive, because it seems that there is something wrong if fdisk cannot even see it.

Any advice? Thanks

You can tell which drives are mapped as which device by inspecting /proc/ide.

Nevermind, I got it figured out. It's actually pretty interesting...

When I originally configured everything, I did not have the third hard drive installed. So my cdrom was on hdc, and the boot entry in grub.conf looked like this:

title RH9 Kernel (2.6.7)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /bzImage-2.6.7 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.6.7.img

So when I installed the new drive, hdc was the drive, and not the cdrom. so the line:

hdc=ide-scsi

was messing it up. I changed it to:

hdd=ide-scsi

so hdc was left alone. I can now mount the drive fine.

Thanks