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Old 02-20-2008, 02:27 PM
Steven Saner
 
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Default Re: Second IDE controller

Ian Bell wrote:
> I have an old Celeron PC based on an Intel 815 chipset on an ATX
> motherboard. It has 2 IDE controller connectors. The primary one has a hard
> drive and CD writer connected to it. They work fine and I can dual boot
> salck and win98 from the hard drive and see the CD writer. The second IDE
> controller has another hard drive on it. The controller is enabled in bios
> and bios can see the drive. However, neither slack nor win98 can see this
> drive. What am I doing wrong?
>
> The primary hard drive is hda and the cdwriter is hdb. Presumably the
> secondary pair should be hdc and hdd respectively?



What kind of partitions are on this drive? What happens if you do fdisk
/dev/hdc from Linux?

Steve

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