Re: fdisk can't see new HD

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--- Colin Brace <cb@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've just put an additional harddrive in my FC5 system, connected to a
> new SATA card, the second in my system. (Up to now I have one ATA
> drive and two SATA drives connected to the MB, and two more SATA
> drives connected to the first SATA card).
> 
> But for some reason, fdisk doesn't see it.
> 
> The PC bios sees it in the HD setup. The SATA card bios sees the drive as well.
> 
> But I am wondering whether Linux recognizes the SATA interface as
> such. lspci displays it as::
> 
> 02:0c.0 SATA controller: Initio Corporation Unknown device 1622 (rev 02)
> 
> where as the first SATA card in my system looks like this:
> 
>   02:0d.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112
> [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
> 
> I am wondering about the "unknown device" string. Should I try a
> different SATA card? Or is this just an unimportant labelling thing.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas...
> 
> -- 
>   Colin Brace
>   Amsterdam

I'd go through 
  $ dmesg | less
and see if the system assigns a device id to your drive on bootup.
  === Al

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