iglow

I need to put a slave hdd in a computer running freespire.I have run out of space on the one i am running it on. So i took an old hdd that i hadand set the jumper thingeys to slave and booted it up. but it didnt show up. Is there a trick or sompthing I dont know about? I am ok with hardware but not so good with software or configuring so if there is any thing to do with that plz act like u are talking to a 3yr old plz. Any help would be great. Thanks, nate

lensman3

It doesn't usually show up automatically. From a command line type in "dmesg | more". Page down through this, (hit a space bar to get a new screen). Look for a set up lines that look like:

ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfa106000 port 0xfa106100 irq 19
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed irq 19
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfa106000 port 0xfa106200 irq 19
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed irq 19
ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfa106000 port 0xfa106300 irq 19ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: HPA detected: current 488395055, native 488397168
ata1.00: ATA-7: WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0, 02.01C03, max UDMA/133
ata1.00: 488395055 sectors, multi 0: LBA48
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133

My ata1 drive is WDC (western digital 250 Mbyte drive (WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0). Somewhere in the listing is your drive. with its particulars. It will probably be your second drive. Also you you should see your DVD/CD reader/writer in the lists. Farther down in the listings is a set up lines that look like:

scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD2500KS-00M 02.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488395055 512-byte hardware sectors (250058 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO
or FUA
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488395055 512-byte hardware sectors (250058 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO
or FUA
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 >

This tell us that the drive is a scsi drive mounted as sda. This is my main drive. : sda1 is my boot partition, sda2 is my /u1 partition, sda3 is my /tmp partition, sda4 is the extended partition that has sda5 /var, sda6/tmp, sda7/var, sda8/usr, sda10/home. You probably only have one disk that is much simpler, has /boot, /, and the swap. But we are looking for probably sdb disk.

Another way the will probably work is to look in the "/proc/scsi/scsi" file. Again from a command prompt do "more /proc/scsi/scsi". You new disk will show up as the second set of devices. The manufacture should be visible.

If at a command prompt you type in "df", you should see the current disk already mounted with all the partitions, what they are called and sizes. Your new disk won't show up yet. My guess is your new disk will be sdb.

If you want to go fishing for it. Try the following from a command prompt: "/sbin/hdparm -i /dev/sdb". This will read info directly from the drives bios. Substitution the -i for -I. If this doesn't work, try /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc. You will need to super user.

Also from a command prompt do "ls /dev/sd*. All the disks you have on your system will be listed. Im guessing that /dev/sdb is the new drive and they will NOT be a number following the sdb#, like there is for the (sda, sda1, sda2, etc.). If "ls /dev/sd*" doesn't return anything, then type in "ls /dev/hd?" and see if /dev/hdb shows up without any trailing numbers.

Let me know what you find out. The next step is to partition the disk using /sbin/fdisk. Once the disk is partitioned, you will have to make a file system on it. The mkfs command. Then the new disk will have to be mounted and added to "/etc/fstab".

Good luck.