detecting new HDD

[scrarfussi]

i,ve connected another hdd to my pc windows picks it up and i've managed to format it in windows but my suse 10.2 is not detecting it i wanted to use this drive as storage where i can dump files from linux and view them in windows can anyone help thanx

[gogalthorp]

As root ie su

what does fdisk -l give you?

How is the second drive attached?

Have you tried mounting it?

[scrarfussi]

Uhmmm i thought it would mount automatically from yast under ide i can see it how do i mount it thanx

[devils casper]

Check the output of fdisk -l command. Create mount_point for each Partition of Second Hard Disk and edit /etc/fstab file to set automounting of second disk at boot up.

In case, you encounter any problem, Post the output of fdisk -l command here.

[scrarfussi]

Check the output of fdisk -l command. Create mount_point for each Partition of Second Hard Disk and edit /etc/fstab file to set automounting of second disk at boot up.

In case, you encounter any problem, Post the output of fdisk -l command here.

contents of fdisk-l
Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 283 2273166 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 * 284 15829 124873245 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 15830 24321 68211990 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 15830 16170 2739051 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 16171 18792 21061183+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 18793 20155 10948266 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 20156 24321 33463363+ 83 Linux

it does not pick up my new hdd which is hdb1 uhmm what lines do i edit in /ets/fstab file thanx

[devils casper]

it does not pick up my new hdd which is hdb1 uhmm what lines do i edit in /ets/fstab file thanx

Something is wrong with Second Hard Disk. SuSe is not recognizing it.
Its not a good idea to edit /etc/fstab file without checking partition structure of second disk and If SuSe is not recognizing Second Disk, edit will not make any difference.

Check cables of Second Disk and make sure that it must be enabled in BIOS.

[scrarfussi]

it is enabled in bios i can pick it up from windows and even formated it and ran chkdisk and can put files onto it

[abhishek456]

so now pick a live cd like Gparted and see wheter the harddisk is shown there

if it's shown there backup your files on disk and recreate a partion

[scrarfussi]

well after restarting i.ve managed to pick it up on fdisk


Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 283 2273166 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 * 284 15829 124873245 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 15830 24321 68211990 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 15830 16170 2739051 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 16171 18792 21061183+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 18793 20155 10948266 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 20156 24321 33463363+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 10.2 GB, 10260710400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1247 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 1247 10016496 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
and under Yast hardware Ide dma setup its there but i cant pick it up under storage media

[abhishek456]

i cant pick it up under storage media

had u manually tried to mount it and did you add an entry in to fstab