[NTLUG:Discuss] Recognizing a Second Harddrive?

[Stephen Klein]

Dennis Myhand wrote:
> 
> Hello All:
> 
> I am wondering how to get my SuSE 6.3 installation to see a second
> harddrive on my machine with Win95 and BeOS on it, but no ext2 FS
> installed.  I have tried adding an entry to /etc/fstab but that does not
> seem to solve the problem.  What am I overlooking?  Thanks, Dennis in
> Waco
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Unless you've already done so, you need to partition the drive, and then
format the new partition(s).

The only two programs I've used to create partitions are fdisk, and
cfdisk.  I'm not sure of SuSE, but hopefully, it has at least one of
these.  Fdisk is a little sparse, but cfdisk is fairly simple to
understand.

Make ABSOLUTELY sure that you are telling either of these programs the
CORRECT DISK that you want to partition, otherwise you might
accidentally wipe out your other drives with little hope of recovery.

These are typical IDE drive device names:

Primary IDE
	MASTER        /dev/hda
	SLAVE         /dev/hdb
Secondary IDE
	MASTER        /dev/hdc
	SLAVE         /dev/hdd

You need to tell the partitioning program which drive via the command
line like this "fdisk /dev/hdc" or "cfdisk /dev/hdc" for the primary
drive on the secondary IDE controller.

If you need any help creating partitions, please be sure to ask.

After that, you need to format the partition(s) you just created. 
Usually with mke2fs.  If you just created one partition, then you should
just type mke2fs /dev/hdX1 where "X" is the device letter (a,b,c,d) of
the drive on which you just created a partition.

When that finishes, you should be able to mount it.

I think there might be a utility included in SuSE to make doing this
much easier (can someone else help here?), if so you might want to use
that.

I hope I was of some help, if not I apologise.  I just got back from a
trip involving lots of rain, a rapidly flowing river, lots of floating
debris, almost running out of gas a long way from a source of fuel, and
some very kind strangers.  In short I'm exhausted, but I'm sure to
remember this vacation for a long time to come. :-)

Stephen


I shun technology as much as I embrace it.
--S.K.