new harddrive

[Arax]

i'm gonna install a new harddrive into my linux box (see? i've gotten the linux lingo), but i cant find it in linux.. :( i installed it as secondary slave (thats /dev/hdd right?) but when i fdisk it i get

 

Unable to open /dev/hdd


 

:( is it maybe because its a fat32 fs on it?

[anyweb]

have you tried

 

fdisk -l (thats a small L as in larry)

 

the second hd will probably show up as hdbx

 

where x=a number of the partition on it

 

the first hd will be hdax

 

that should display all your partitions/drives

 

then you can format the drive using mkfs

 

cheers

 

anyweb

[Arax]

fdisk -l returned this:

 

Disk /dev/hda: 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/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux

/dev/hda2 14 3617 28949130 83 Linux

/dev/hda3 3618 3649 257040 82 Linux swap

 

nothing more :(

i even probed for it in kudzu and i found it too :/

[Arax]

when i probed it i got no physical or logical size, like i got on the other hd..

[anyweb]

have you checked that the drive is jumpered correctly and that it is seen in your computers bios ?

 

cheers

 

anyweb

[Arax]

yup, when i halt my computer it even says that its closing (or whatever) hdd :(

 

it might be unpartitioned by the way...

[Arax]

i changed it from secondary slave to primary slave and now i found it ;)

i even managed to format it :)

i'm moving up from linux noob to linux pre beginner

[anyweb]

nice one, keep up the good work :)