opensuse 10.3 does not recognize second hard drive

[barrybham]

I am running opensuse 10.3 on an HP Pavilion which had an SATA drive preinstalled, and I have added a second drive from my old machine which is standard EIDE. When I did the installation of suse, and since, the OS does not see the second drive at all. It does not appear in the partitioner, Konqueror, system information, or anywhere. This is a known good drive, and there have been no hardware changes since I had it running under Vista. I have another machine of a similar configuration (sata + ide) and the installer didn't see the IDE drive there either.

Since I have removed Vista from this machine, I now have no way to access the data on that drive. Note that this drive has never been visible to suse from the time I first put in the installation dvd.

Any ideas?

[HROAdmin26]

10.3 uses a newer "unified" IDE/SATA driver that, assuming the drive works, should be seen by default...

Is the drive listed by the BIOS at boot time? And once in SuSE, is it listed when you look at /proc/scsi/scsi?

> cat /proc/scsi/scsi

That would tell you the basics of whether the kernel knows about the drive at all.

[barrybham]

No, the drive is not seen at all. It is in the BIOS, it did work perfectly under Windows, but Linux does not see the IDE drive whatsoever, even from the point of original installation.This is the output of the command you suggested:
Attached devices:
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG HD320KJ Rev: CP10
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATAPI Model: DVD A DH16A1L Rev: KH15
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: Generic- Model: Compact Flash Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 01
Vendor: Generic- Model: SM/xD-Picture Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 02
Vendor: Generic- Model: SD/MMC Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 03
Vendor: Generic- Model: MS/MS-Pro Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00


It lists the SATA drive, the DVD, and the various flash memory ports the machine has. The Western Digital IDE drive is not seen,

[scrarfussi]

i had a similar problem with anoother drive check your jumper cales on the drive i think it should be set on cable select then you might need to fprmat the drive under opensuse

[barrybham]

I've also discovered that if I boot the system from Pendrive Linux on a usb stick, it sees both hard drives. This problem appears to be specific to Suse.

[HROAdmin26]

Interesting....

What does lspci show as the IDE chipset? Run lspci in Suse and in Pendrive.

Example:

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)

Also run an lsmod on each to see what modules are being loaded.

I am guessing this is one of 2 things:
> The "newer" unified SATA/PATA driver in 10.3 has an issue with your IDE chipset (and maybe the Pendrive uses an older IDE module.)
> Or, *could* udev have something to do with filtering this device out. (The new udev rules drive me crazy with NIC's/MAC's and moving virtual machines...)

[vengeance]

heh i did have the same probb on suse 10.2 does fdisk -l show tha partitions might be u have to manually setup the entries in /etc/fstab