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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Again on hdd recognition. It's seen but no fdisk
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:42:40
Message-Id: 873bl4fk33.fsf@newsguy.com
1 I'm adding a 300GB hdd to a older P4 with intel D850MV mobo
2
3 Running updated box as of 2 days ago. On bios inspection, this drive
4 appears to be properly recognized, size etc.
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6 On bootup the dmesg record shows it being seen and recognized
7 (hdc in this output). You may notice it is already partitioned and
8 the partitions are recognized too. I did that from a knoppix session
9 with fdisk. (On this same box) so knoppix was able to see and
10 partition it.
11
12 When booted up under gentoo, fdisk does not see this disk and complains
13 of not being able to open /dev/hdc/ There is no /dev/hdc. The
14 symlink was not created. Further the name gentoo uses of the form:
15
16 ls -l /dev/hdb lrw [...] /dev/hdb -> ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc
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18 One would expect an ide/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/disc for /dev/hdc
19
20 How are these created? What is likely the cause of it not happening
21 by default?
22
23 ===============
24 Dmesg snip
25 [...]
26 hda: MAXTOR 6L060J3, ATA DISK drive
27 input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
28 hdb: WDC WD600BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive
29 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
30 Probing IDE interface ide1...
31
32 ** hdc: WDC WD3000JB-00KFA0, ATA DISK drive
33
34 hdd: ATAPI CD-RW 32/12/40X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
35 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
36 Probing IDE interface ide2...
37 Probing IDE interface ide3...
38 Probing IDE interface ide4...
39 Probing IDE interface ide5...
40 hda: max request size: 128KiB
41 hda: 117266688 sectors (60040 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63,
42 UDMA(100)
43 hda: cache flushes supported
44 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
45 hdb: max request size: 128KiB
46 hdb: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63,
47 UDMA(100)
48 hdb: cache flushes not supported
49 hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 >
50
51 ** hdc: max request size: 1024KiB
52 ** hdc: 586072368 sectors (300069 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=36481/255/63,
53 UDMA(33)
54 hdc: cache flushes supported
55 hdc: hdc1 < hdc5 hdc6 > hdc2
56 [...]
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Re: [gentoo-user] Again on hdd recognition. It's seen but no fdisk Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>