"HannoverVolker" <volkerkrueger@yahoo.de> wrote in message
> news:1152012193.232040.27470@a14g2000cwb.googlegro ups.com...
> Hello everybody!
> We have a linux server, installed with Debian 3.1r2 (Kernel 2.6.8) with
> a serial ATA-drive (80 GB). Everything works fine. Now we have put in a
> second serial ATA-drive with a capacity of 500 GB. This drive is not
> recognized by the operating system. As far as i know, lba48 is
> integrated in the kernel since version 2.6. In the bios S/ATA and P/ATA
> is activated, since the DVD drive should be recognized too.
> Can anybody give us a hint, how we can use our second harddrive?
> Greetings, Volker

Does the motherboards' hardware list the sata hardware in the boot routine?

Have you downloaded and run the diags from the hardware manufacturer of
the hard drive?

later,
charles.....