S-ATA and IDE Combo card + Linux Debian

[codestar]

Hi there! (This is my first post over here, whieee!)

I'm trying to add a third hard drive to my little Linux Debian server over here. So I bought a S-ATA and IDE Combo card and installed it into my server.

When I boot I says he finds a second parallel master. But when I type fdisk -l in Linux. There is no third disc found:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1        1216     9767488+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2            1217        4870    29350755    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            1217        1338      979933+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6            1339        4870    28370758+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1       10011    80413326    7  HPFS/NTFS

What do I have to do to make the third hardrive visable?

Some more info:
It's a Serial ATA & IDE Combo card
conceptronic

Thanks in advance!

[chadders]

What you are trying to do is mount a hard drive. By the looks of things it could be hda3 or hda4 but I am unsure. You'll need to format it into a usable format. Might I suggest ext3. Then use '$ man fdisk' to work out the rest.

Cheers.

[devils casper]

What you are trying to do is mount a hard drive. By the looks of things it could be hda3 or hda4 but I am unsure.

hda3 and hda4 are partitions of first HardDisk only.

What do I have to do to make the third hardrive visable?

Some more info:
It's a Serial ATA & IDE Combo card
conceptronic

Which version of Debian do you have? Something must be wrong in BIOS only.

[cburwell]

Along what Casper is saying does the BIOS detect the hard drive at bootup? Usually you get a list of your drives when the computer is first turned on.

What are you seeing that indiucates to you that Linux is recognizing the new drive?

[codestar]

Linux Debian version 4.0r1

No way, I am not formatting this disc! It's my data HD, and I will try to share it over the network with samba. (For the Win XP client Pc's)

I'll check out the bios... but what should I change over there?

Edit:

@cburwell

The bootscreen shows 2 HD's. Primairy master & slave.
... and then another screen appears with VIA tech. RAID BIOS information. That detect's a Parallel Master. Ata 100 Size: 149.05 Status Hdd

[devils casper]

Make sure that SATA disk(s) must be visible and enabled in BIOS.

[chadders]

Linux Debian version 4.0r1

No way, I am not formatting this disc! It's my data HD, and I will try to share it over the network with samba. (For the Win XP client Pc's)

I'll check out the bios... but what should I change over there?

Edit:

@cburwell

The bootscreen shows 2 HD's. Primairy master & slave.
... and then another screen appears with VIA tech. RAID BIOS information. That detect's a Parallel Master. Ata 100 Size: 149.05 Status Hdd

Maybe what I said was not clear enough for you. If it's already formatted into a useable partition there's no issue! I'm no expert in Linux but if it's been used on windows in the past it's probs fat32 of vfat. I wouldn't ask someone to format a HD that's already in a usable format.

Just clarifying lol, cheers.