Hard Drive not Showing Up

[wecool44]

I am trying to install openSuSE on my computer, but two of my hard drives are not showing up in the partitioning tool, one of which I want to install on. I have a 64gb ssd used as the boot drive for Windows 7, which doesn't show up, I have a RAID 1 set with 2 1tb hdd drives, which shows up as 4 drives in the partitioning tool, and I have a 80gb hdd, which I want to install on but doesn't show up. Any help would be appreciated, but I'm just a kid, so nothing too complicated. Thanks in advance.

[Roxoff]

If your SSD is pretty new and your install disk for SuSE is quite old, there could be an issue with identifying your drive. It's not often that drives aren't identified by a Linux installer, you could try downloading the newest version of SuSE and seeing if that is any better?

Of course, you might already have the latest SuSE install - if that's the case you might need a kernel modification, or it might even be that your drive is so new it's not supported yet (although that's unlikely).#

Another solution might be to put an older drive, if you have one, into the box to use as your Linux system drive.

[wecool44]

Thank you for the quick response, but it's not the sdd I'm concerned about, it's the hdd. The hdd is 80gb and is from the 2007 ps3 and it shows up in Windows 7 as drive F. My openSuSE disk is from LinuxUser October 27,2011, so it's 12.1 RC1.

[Roxoff]

Ok. Does the CD have a 'live' version on it or a recovery mode? Can you boot up off the install CD or DVD and look at your hardware from the point of view of Linux? If you can, then from the command prompt you can list all the attached hard disks with the command '/sbin/fdisk -l' (that's a lower-case L). I know the Fedora installer has an option to hide some of the disks from the partition manager step, perhaps something like that is going on.

[wecool44]

I can see the hardware from linux, and only my raid 1 array is there. I will check the command prompt's point of view.

[wecool44]

Here is /sbin/fdisk -l output:


Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0559e618

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 1953503999 976750976 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0559e618

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 1953503999 976750976 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Disk /dev/md126: 1000.2 GB, 1000202043392 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121600 cylinders, total 1953519616 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0559e618

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/md126p1 2048 1953503999 976750976 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT





I could try dumping the OS to the drive from windows with dd on cygwin if I need to, but I don't know how.

[Roxoff]

The 80GB drive isn't in this list, as you already know. How is that drive connected into your computer? Is it an old-fashioned IDE drive rather than the newer SATA connector? Is it plugged in on a separate PCI IDE card?

[wecool44]

I know that it is a SATA drive plugged in to the motherboard, but I don't know what SATA port it's plugged in to.

[Roxoff]

Unless you have an extremely new sata chipset that is so new it isn't supported yet, then something is masking your 80gig drive. The SATA port it's plugged into shouldn't interfere with the ability of the hardware to see the drive. You don't have the drive hidden some way in the BIOS settings do you?

I'm running out of suggestions here - the drive should be visible but isn't, it might be time to consider alternative solutions.

[wecool44]

I switched the SATA port on the drive and it installed correctly. But now when I try to boot it up in linux, grub tells me the (hd0,1) doesn't exist. openSuSE sees the drive it's installed on as /dev/sda2. What should I change (hd0,1) to in my grub config file?