Hi,<br><br> I am having my secondary hardisk (Seagate ST380020ACE 80 GB) unreadable by fedora 8. It reads it as 0 MB drive. Here's the output from dmesg.<br><br>*******************************<br>
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA <b>WDC WD1600BB</b>-00G 08.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5<br>
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)<br>
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off<br>
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00<br>
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA<br>
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)<br>
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off<br>
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00<br>
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA<br>
<b>sda: sda1 < sda5 > sda2 sda3 sda4</b><br>
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk<br>
scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA <b>ST380020ACE </b> 4.91 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5<br>
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).<br>
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 0 512-byte hardware sectors (0 MB)<br>
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off<br>
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00<br>
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA<br>
<b>sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk</b><br>
scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM <b>SONY DVD RW DRU-810A</b> 1.0a PQ: 0 ANSI: 5<br>*****************************<br><br><br>Here's the output of lspci<br>*****************************<br>
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 651 Host (rev 02)<br>
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)<br>
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)<br>
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller<br>
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]<br>
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)<br>
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)<br>
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)<br>
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller<br>
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)<br>
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter<br>*****************************<br><br><br>'Fdisk -l' shows the information about the primary hardisk only (
<b>WDC WD1600BB) </b>. So its of no use. I tried fdisk on /dev/sdb, but still no info.<br><br><br>Today, I tried via knoppix and it mounted both the drives and all the partitions in them automatically. Here's the output of dmesg from knoppix
5.1.1.<br><br>************************<br>
Probing IDE interface ide0...<br>
hda: WDC WD1600BB-00GUC0, ATA DISK drive<br>
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14<br>
Probing IDE interface ide1...<br>
hdc: ST380020ACE, ATA DISK drive<br>
hdd: SONY DVD RW DRU-810A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive<br>
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15<br>
hda: max request size: 512KiB<br>
hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63<br>
hda: cache flushes supported<br>
hda: hda1 < hda5 > hda2 hda3 hda4<br>
hdc: max request size: 128KiB<br>
hdc: 156301488 sectors <b>(80026 MB)</b> w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63<br>
hdc: cache flushes not supported<br>
hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4<br>
hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache<br>
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20<br>
Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-724.<6>PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12<br>
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1<br>
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12<br>
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice<br>**********************************<br><br><br>As u can see fedora 8 reads the IDE drives as sd*, while knoppix reads its correctly according to the convention as hd*. What can be the problem? I want fedora 8 to be reading my secondary hardisk.
<br><br>Thanx!<br>