Second hardisk not readable!

[Andrew Farris]

Prashant wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I am having my secondary hardisk (Seagate ST380020ACE 80 GB) unreadable by
> fedora 8. It reads it as 0 MB drive. Here's the output from dmesg.
> 
> *******************************
> scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA *WDC WD1600BB*-00G 08.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 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] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 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 < sda5 > sda2 sda3 sda4*
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
> scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA *ST380020ACE * 4.91 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 0 512-byte hardware sectors (0 MB)
> sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support
> DPO or FUA
> *sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk*
> scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM *SONY DVD RW DRU-810A* 1.0a PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> *****************************
> 
> 
> Here's the output of lspci
> *****************************
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 651 Host (rev 02)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI
> bridge (AGP)
> 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media
> IO] (rev 25)
> 00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
> 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
> 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97
> Sound Controller (rev a0)
> 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
> (rev 0f)
> 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
> (rev 0f)
> 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI
> Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
> 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
> *****************************
> 
> 
> 'Fdisk -l' shows the information about the primary hardisk only (*WDC
> WD1600BB) *. So its of no use. I tried fdisk on /dev/sdb, but still no info.
> 
> 
> Today, I tried via knoppix and it mounted both the drives and all the
> partitions in them automatically. Here's the output of dmesg from knoppix
> 5.1.1.
> 
> ************************
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: WDC WD1600BB-00GUC0, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> hdc: ST380020ACE, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: SONY DVD RW DRU-810A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: max request size: 512KiB
> hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63
> hda: cache flushes supported
> hda: hda1 < hda5 > hda2 hda3 hda4
> hdc: max request size: 128KiB
> hdc: 156301488 sectors *(80026 MB)* w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
> hdc: cache flushes not supported
> hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4
> hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-724.<6>PNP: PS/2 Controller
> [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
> serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> **********************************
> 
> 
> As u can see fedora 8 reads the IDE drives as sd*, while knoppix reads its
> correctly according to the convention as hd*. What can be the problem? I
> want fedora 8 to be reading my secondary hardisk.
> 
> Thanx!

Did you get this into bugzilla or make any progress on it with other steps?  I 
don't see this in bz yet but I may be missing it.

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