On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:40:07 +0100, 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?
Yes.
>
> Ian
>
Note: comment inline.

It seems like you are doing things right. These type of things can get
frustrating.

Did the second drive ever work or has this drive been recently
added? What size is the new drive?

Things to check:
1. Drive spins up.
2. Drive is jumpered correctly.
3. Drive cable is known good.
4. Drive is recognized by the motherboard/controller. BIOS set for LBA
mode.
5. Drive is recognized by the kernel at boot.

The next thing to do is swap drive positions temporarily. One way to do
this is to replace your existing hard disk (either hda or hdb) and boot
with a rescue cd.

--
Douglas Mayne