[TriLUG] Linux on Toshiba laptop not recognizing 2nd hard disk!

[Brian A. Henning]

I'm not sure why you're fdisking a device with data on it..  Seems risky to
me, but anyway...  So you're saying that, for example,

root% mount -t ntfs /dev/hdc1 /mnt/amountpoint

gives errors of some sort?  Or am I reading you wrong---you are saying that
you want to get at data on this second hd (which lin sees as /dev/hdc, which
has a number of ntfs partitions on it) while booted in Linux, right?

Cheers,
~Brian





Phillip Rhodes wrote:

Ok, here's some additional info.. I found a kernel option specified
in grub.conf, hdc=ide-scsi.  I took that out and now
if I fdisk -l /dev/hdc, it sees the drive.. BUT.. it thinks there
is ONE partition of type SFS (whatever that is).  In reality there
are two or three NTFS partitions....

Anybody got any thoughts on what might be causing this? Or more
to the point, how to fix it?

The goal here, is to get to my mp3 collection (which is on that
2nd hard drive) when I'm running Linux.. I've already gotten the
NTF support to work (for partitions on /dev/hda) I just can't get
anything to work with this other drive...

Help.. :-)

TTYL,

Phil



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