installed new hard drive - now can't find it

[Mark Knecht]

Dana Holland wrote:
> We just installed a new SCSI hard drive in our Dell box - it was the 4th 
> of a 4-drive chain.  We're running RH 7.3 on the box.  During boot up we 
> see that it recognizes the new device, but it doesn't give any kind of 
> label or anything else to identify the new drive.  After the system 
> boots up, we can't find the drive to partition it.  How do I find it?
> 
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I would guess you'd step thought looking at:

fdisk /dev/sda
fdisk /dev/sdb

etc. until you find it. For me 'finding' a drive amounts to fdisk not 
complaining that the devide doesn't exist.

At that point you should be able to partition it with fdisk and bring it up.

- Mark