[LBo] Can't see the second SATA disk on Redhat 4

[Emen Zhao]

Hi Anita,

I tried to boot from a GParted live cd, the second drive doesn't show up
either.

I also checked dmesg, nothing about the second drive there either.

The second most likely is not detected.

Thanks,
Emen


On 6/14/07, Anita Lewis <a.lewis at linuxbasics.org> wrote:
>
> On 06/14/2007 03:58 AM Emen Zhao wrote:
> > Hello Group,
> >
> > I have a box that has two SATA drives. I installed Redhat Ent 4 on this
> box,
> > but it failed to detect the second SATA drive. Any pointer would be of
> great
> > help.
> >
>
> My first thought would be to try a rescue disk or LiveCD to see if it
> gets detected with one of them.  See
> http://linuxbasics.org/tutorials/using/rescue_disk for a few lite
> varieties of rescue disks.  In other words, can you see the drive with a
> different OS or version of Linux? Did you have something else on the box
> previously and were using both drives?
>
> You say it failed to detect the second drive; did you determine this
> because the drive doesn't show up in dmesg or some other way?  I'm
> wanting to make sure that the drive is really not detected rather than
> the system is not able to access it.
>
> Anita
>
>
>
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