New Drive Woes (Solved)

Mike Dwiggins mike at azdwiggins.com
Tue Sep 16 04:04:10 UTC 2008


Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 20:55 -0700, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
>   
>> I added a second drive a WD2000.  BIOS picks it up no problem and when I 
>> go to /dev/disk/by-id there it is as a ata-WDC_WD200JB.
>>
>> However fdisk /dev/hdb returns unable to open hdb.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>     
> ----
> you don't say which fedora you are using but since fedora 7, the system
> uses the scsi based drivers thus it would be 'fdisk /dev/sdb'
>
> Craig
>
>   
I am using FC 8 (my bad there) but I tried the sdb and I am in.  Thank 
you Craig.




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