1st thing u need to look at is your bios. It's more than a little possible it doesn't support drives that large. Perhaps there's an upgrade available--check w/the server mobo manufacturer website. The next question is does the operating system you're using support that large a drive. On 3/2/09, John G. Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My department put a new disk in one of our servers. The machine has a RAID > controller with 4 disks and then this new disk is attached to one of the > sata ports. There used to be a 80 Gb disk attached there and the new disk > that we just replaced it with is 1 Tb (1000 Gb). > > Anyway, the old 80 Gb drive used to be seen as sdb. But the new drive > doesn't show up at all. If I run 'sfdisk -l', the RAID disks show up as sda. > But there is no sdb. > > I was using the stock debian kernel in lenny. But I also tried the 2.6.28 > kernel from the debian kernel team's experimental archive. Still no > /dev/sdb. > > What else can I try? > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Change the world--1 deed at a time Jackie McBride Check out my homepage at: www.abletec.serverheaven.net & please join my fight against breast cancer <http://teamacs.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=1790196&pg=personal&fr_id=3489> _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list