>       Recently I had hooked up my friends HDD as the secondary slave on
> my system. But I did not have much success in accessing the partitions on
> the drive. I tried using /dev/hdbX, but no success.

secondary slave is /dev/hdd[X] 
see the o/p for 
dmesg | grep hd
and find the exact /dev/[entry] for accessing drive 

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Jiju Thomas Mathew
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://members.xoom.com/DigitelNet

Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
Linux Version 2.2.12-20, Compiled #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54 EDT 1999
One 100MHz Intel Pentium Processor, 16M RAM, 39.73 Bogomips Total

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