new to linux

[root]

hi paul thankyou for the prompt response and yes i got my linux mail
client setup now sorry about the blue background before but you guessed
it i am a sad windows user as well. anyway onto the problem i have
again.

>When you did the install, were the drives connected and if they were,
>did you let the installer do the partitioning? If you did, it's quite
>likely that the other two drives will be getting used somewhere. Have a
>look in /etc/fstab for entries marked /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdc1. These are
>the names given to the drives. The DVD will be something like /dev/hde
>(you will see it in /etc/fstab).

yes when i installed fedora the drives were all attached and i did let the 
installer do all the work i have had a look in /etc/fstab and this is what i 
see

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

hope that helps on that piece and also this is what i see in hardware browser

Device		Start	End	Size (MB)	Type
/dev/hda
hda1		1	203	100		ext3
hda2		204	36712	17969		ext3
hda3		36713	38792	1024		linux-swap

/dev/hdb
		1	19386	9542		free space
/dev/hdc
		1	19386	9542		free space
again hope this helps and thankyou for the response so far

karl filby