[TriLUG] recognizing 2nd HDD

Chris Merrill cmerrill at nc.rr.com
Wed Nov 14 09:02:11 EST 2001


That One Guy said:
> I hope I'm not telling you what you already know, but:
>
> -  Check /var/log/messages and find out what device it shows up as.
>         (It's probably /dev/hdb)

Ahh...that's what I was missing.  I was expecting /dev/hdb, but I found
it in the log as /dev/hdc:

Nov 14 08:46:59 rx8 kernel: hdc: IBM-DCXA-210000, ATA DISK drive
Nov 14 08:46:59 rx8 kernel: hdc: 19640880 sectors (10056 MB) w/420KiB Cache, CHS=20784/15/63, UDMA(33)

Thanks!!

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