Two HDs

[Kevin Martin]

On 05/01/13 15:36, Bill Kuns wrote:
> Dear Helpers:
> 
> I have installed two 1 TB Hard Drives in my new system.  Only one of the two is
> recognized by Fedora.
> 
> They are WD1002FAEX drives.  When I asked Western Digital for assistance, their
> "help" wasn't much help.
> 
> They reported this difficulty was the result of a "Signature Collision".  Then,. they gave me instructions on how to clear the error
> in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.  None of those is going to work under Fedora.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Bill Kuns <am497 at CyberMesa.com <mailto:am497 at CyberMesa.com>>
> 
> 
> 
What was their suggestion for clearing in Windows?  From what I can see you can reinitialize one of the drives (low level format)
and that should fix the problem; then you should be able to partition it or add it as a mirrored drive or something of that nature.

Kevin