Drives are not being detected

From: Andy Gayton (andy_at_thecablelounge.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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    Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:16:36 +1000
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    I'm running stable woody 3.0r2.

    I originally installed the machine with 2 hard drives on the primary ide controller and a cd drive as master on the secondary controller. I installed off cd and everything came up fine.

    I've now tried to add a third hard drive onto the secondary ide controller. I think I got the master/slave settings conflicting when I first tried to bring the system up - I didn't have a monitor on the box when bringing it up the first couple times. The box came up ok and the 2 drives on the primary controller were all good, but nothing from the secondary controller. I put a monitor on to see what was going on, the bios was detecting everything ok, but I still couldn't see anything from inside of linux for the secondary controller. The bios was displaying this message:

    secondary ide channel no 80 conductor cable installed

    Which looks like I should be using a different cable, but shouldn't stop things from working?

    I've now disconnected the new harddrive so I'm back to the original setup of 2 hard drives on the primary and a cd drive as master on the secondary. The bios sees everything fine - no warnings about the 80 conductor cable. But still no sign of the cd drive inside off linux?? This is the same cd I installed the system from.

    The following shows that linux is not seeing anything from the second controller:

    -----------------
    (root@davros) /proc/ide# dmesg | grep hd
        ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
        ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
    hda: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
    hdb: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
    hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63, UDMA(100)
    hdb: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63, UDMA(100)
     hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
     hdb: unknown partition table
    (root@davros) /proc/ide#
    -----------------

    -----------------
    (root@davros) /root#
    (root@davros) /root# cd /proc/ide
    (root@davros) /proc/ide# ls -l
    total 0
    -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 31 23:08 drivers
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 31 23:08 hda -> ide0/hda
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 31 23:08 hdb -> ide0/hdb
    dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 31 23:08 ide0
    -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 31 23:08 sis
    (root@davros) /proc/ide#
    ---------------

    Any advice on how I can get linux to see the cdrom again would be greatly appreciated!

    Andy. 

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