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

[David M Simmons]

If I may jump in. I had a similar problem trying to install a Western 
Digital 320 gig SATA drive. At the time I was using Ubuntu Breezy and 
Windows XP Pro and tried the QParted CD. Nothing worked until I 
downloaded and ran the "WD Data Lifeguard Tools" I put two empty 
partitions on the drive. The first on I used to install VISTA Beta and 
the rest of the disk is used as a data drive (formated Linux Ext3). 
Caveat - since the partitions were made under Windows they have a "07" 
bite code. I did not delete and re-install the second partition, so now 
low level tools i.e. Spinrite see the partition as NTFS. Although it 
works fine in normal use.

Your info indicates the first drive is a Seagate 160 gig SATA. Are you 
sure you do not have RAID turned on. And that the BIOS is translating 
the second drive to standard IDE protocol?

You might try the "Ultimate Boot CD", it has most of the disk tools from 
the manufacturers.

I hope this will help - David

Emen Zhao wrote:
> Here are a bit more info... from dmesg, following messages are displayed
>
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: ST3160812AS, ATA DISK drive
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> hdc: TSSTcorpDVD-ROM TS-H353B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> Probing IDE interface ide2...
> Probing IDE interface ide3...
> Probing IDE interface ide4...
> Probing IDE interface ide5...
> Using cfq io scheduler
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: max request size: 1024KiB
> hda: 312500000 sectors (160000 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19452/255/63
> hda: cache flushes supported
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
> hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 198kB Cache
>
> It detected nothing on ide4, while from BIOS settings, ide4 is connected to
> the second drive.
>
> Thanks,
> Emen
>
> On 6/14/07, Emen Zhao <emenzhaowork at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>>>