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I have 2 SATA hdd's hooked up, but it only detects the one i boot from. I like to use the other for media storage, etc.. please help. thanks....
  1. 07-23-2008 #1
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    HDD help

    I have 2 SATA hdd's hooked up, but it only detects the one i boot from. I like to use the other for media storage, etc..

    please help.
    thanks.
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  2. 07-23-2008 #2
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    You can run fdisk -l (that's a lower-case "L" on the end) from the command line to see if it's detecting both drives. If it is, you probably just need to mount the drive to access it.

    Have you added the second drive to your /etc/fstab file yet?
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    alright. how do you mount it?
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    Assuming your filesystem type is ext3 and your second drive partition is sdb1:

    mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/data

    You will first need to log in as root and create the directory in /mnt/
    mkdir /mnt/data
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  5. 07-23-2008 #5
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    adsfasdfasd

    mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
    missing codepage or helper program, or other error
    In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
    dmesg | tail or so


    what's wrong?
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    Post the output of fdisk -l command here.
    Code:
    su -
fdisk -l
df -h
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