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

[Emen Zhao]

Thank you all for your replies. Finally I nailed down the cause. On the
motherboard, there are four SATA ports - 0, 1, 4, 5. My Linux server is only
able to see port  0 and 1. I hooked my drives up to port 0 and 1, and
they're working pretty happy now. :-)

thanks again!

-- Emen

On 6/14/07, David M Simmons <DMSimmons2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >>>>
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