On Friday 09 January 2004 07:30 pm, Peter Simko wrote: > > Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This is > really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs from an ATA > controller card, but I got rid of that and put both drives on IDE 0 to > simplify my system. That changed hdf to hdb without a problem (with > appropriate changes to fstab), but somehow hde just went 'poof' and > disappeared instead of showing up again as hda.
A few things I can think of: hda should be jumpered for "Master" and it should be (if I recall correctly, someone will correct me if I'm wrong) on the end of the IDE cable. The slave drive should be attached to the center cable connector. Does your bios show both drives being detected and identified correctly? (assuming you don't have a crippled bios like a Gateway or some such). Do you get a message at the first boot screen (right after memory test) that shows the Master and Slave drive being identified? Have you tried moving hdb to ide1, and having hda alone on ide0? Tried booting with only hda plugged in? Lots of stuff you can do to determine what the problem is, but it acts like: 1. hda has no power plugged into it 2. hda is jumpered wrong, or in the wrong position on the cable 3. the IDE cable is bad, not plugged in, or plugged in wrong--red marker not to pin 1 (not impossible to do with some cable/drive combos) 4. the hd has gone bad
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