Ive got a second hard drive and it is empty. I have formtted it and created a linux file system on it but when i look at it in the cosole it is named hdb1 and when i look at it in the RH9 hardware browser it says that it is hdh1. How should i go about using it for storing backups and stuff on?

Where is it installed.

hda Primary Master
hdb Primary Slave
hdc Secondary Master
hdd Secondary Slave

These are the usual four.

Oh man ive got problems then cuz this is what my hardware browser says:
Hard Drives:

Primary master hde1, hde2, hde3

Primary slave hdh1 (empty drive)

why would my drive lettering be so far from the standard?

Have you got RAID? or an expansion card with IDE Ports?

Or it could be just Redhat messing with you.

No raid and no ide expansions.

Post up what you get from typing (as root):
/sbin/fdisk -l (/SBIN/FDISK -L lowercase)

Cool

This is what i got from /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdh: 6505 MB, 6505712640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 790 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdh1 1 790 6345643+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hde: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hde2 14 3552 28427017+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde3 3553 3649 779152+ 82 Linux swap

Here is my hard drive list, why are they hde and hdh and not hda,b,c?

Well there ya go, it's not lying at least

Maybe you've got a built in RAID controller and didn't even know it, or possible a built in IDE Controller, and it's also a RAID, but in either event works like one...

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Oh. I dont really know how to use it I woud just like to know how i can use the hdh drive (6 gig) to store stuff on. Everytime i try to make a link to it i cant. How can i make a link on my taskbar so i can drag stuff to it?