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> Trying to add a second hard drive to a Mandrake 9.1 system running DevFS.
> OS detects drive on bootup and shows it in device manager but I can't
> access
> the drive, even with fdisk. The device manager shows the drive as being
> at
> /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc. The directory
> /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0 exists but is empty.
If it is empty, it cannot be accessed.
Any error messages in dmesg from devfs?
I boot Debian
> (without DevFS) on this same machine and it sees the new drive no problem.
> I can mount it and access it fully. I've tried this on three different
> Mandrake 9.1 machines with three different hard drives and have gotten the
> same results in all cases. I've already discussed this on the Mandrake
> forums and the consenses it that it's a DevFS issue. Has anyone seen this
> before? Is there a way around it?
>
>
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> Devin Brown
> Anthony Macauley Associates
> dbrown@xxxxx
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