Re: Drives are not being detected

From: Alvin Oga (aoga_at_ns.Linux-Consulting.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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To: Andy Gayton <andy@thecablelounge.com>

    On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Andy Gayton wrote:

    > 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:

    try to put your 3rd (new ) hd on as /dev/hdb.... if it works.. your drive
    is good

    try to use your 2nd cable as the cablef or /dev/hda and /dev/hdb

    -- and last chance...
            - you cannot mix ata33 devices ( cdrom ) w/ ata66/ata100/ata133
            drives -- the slow cdrom will slow the disk down ...
            and the fast disk will amke the cdrom look invisible and
            they will confuse each other to the controller

    if that's a cdrw vs cdrom, you will need to do more boot/kernel fiddling
    with scsi-emulation and not just 'cdrom' issue

    c ya
    alvin

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