Help me help linux find my hard drive

[Jataro]

I have two sata drives in my computer and I installed openSuse on sda. Unfortunately when I look for sdb it is nowhere to be found. I know the drive is functional, because if I change the boot order in BIOS it will boot to my Windoze installation on that disk.
Heres my fdisk output:

joe:~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 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/sda1 * 1 9602 77128033+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9603 10011 3285292+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 9603 10011 3285261 82 Linux swap / Solaris


Thanks in advance for any help you can give on this issue. I've posted this problem on a couple SUSE forums and have had no luck.

[devils casper]

whats the output of 'cat /proc/partitions'? did you add any parameter during installation?

[Jataro]

Thanks again for helping me, I'm really stumped.

whats the output of 'cat /proc/partitions'?

major minor #blocks name

8 0 80418240 sda
8 1 77128033 sda1
8 2 1 sda2
8 5 3285261 sda5

did you add any parameter during installation?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this, but I did not do anything out of the ordinary when I installed. When it asked me to set up my partitions, there was the same problem where it only found one hard drive.

[jweekley1]

In your boot manager grub/lilo is there an entry for the second hard drive/partition.

[Jataro]

No, grub has two entries: normal boot and failsafe. They both are pointing to sda.

[Jataro]

Turns out it was a kernel issue.
Upgrading from 2.6.18.2 to 2.6.18.8 solved the problem.
Thanks all.

[devils casper]

thanx for posting solution.
i was searching solution for this problems.