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From: Michael on 25 Aug 2006 13:34

"Floyd L. Davidson" <floyd(a)apaflo.com> wrote in message news:87irkhtibz.fld(a)apaflo.com...
> "Michael" <emdeedoublethree(a)cornell.edu> wrote:
>>I've installed a 2nd hard drive to my Slackware 10.2 setup,
>>but I get the following error when I try to format the disk:
>>
>># fdisk /dev/sdb
>># Unable to open /dev/sdb
>
> It would only be at /dev/sdb if it were a SCSI disk.
>
> Try /dev/hdb, or whatever IDE drive is appropriate. You can
> determine that by watching the information spewed out during the
> boot process, or by doing "dmesg | more" after booting.
>
> You can also look at /proc/ide/hdb/ to find out what the kernel
> knows about it. For example "cat /proc/ide/hdb/capacity" will
> tell you what the disk size is for /dev/hdb.
>
>>The hard drive is a Seagate Ultra ATA/100 500 GB. The BIOS,
>>incidently, doensn't "see" all 500 GBs.
>
> If the bios can tell it is there, then you'll do fine. You
> might not be able to boot from it, but it will certainly do fine
> as a second drive.
>
> --
> Floyd L. Davidson

Thanks, Floyd. I tried to set it up as the boot drive, but no luck. Maybe
that's why.



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