On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, francis picabia <fpica...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Marc Shapiro <marcns...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm feeling really dumb right now. Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the >> information that I need at this time. >> >> I just installed a new SATA 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive in my Lenny box with >> FVWM as my window manager. This is the first time that I have installed a >> SATA drive. How do I determine what drive name to use to repartition and >> reformat the drive. With an IDE drive I can tell what it is from its >> position on the cable. That doesn't work with SATA. >> >> I have looked at the output of blkid, as well as looking through /dev/disk/ >> and I don't see anything that looks like the new drive to me. I also didn't >> have anything jump out at me from dmesg. >> >> Can anyone tell me where I should be looking, and what I should be looking >> for? >> >> Do I need to make changes in the BIOS to recognize SATA drives? >> >> All help appreciated. >> > > Usually the new drive is different than your older drive. If so, you > can identify > it through fdisk -l to list all your drives. Check the size and it > will usually indicate > what it is. Otherwise if the size of two drives are the same, you can > install or use smartctl to see the drive model info. smartctl -i /dev/sda > will show a bunch of data on the drive including the model number and > serial number. Match to what is printed on the hard drive sticker > and you will know what is what. > > If nothing new pops up in fdisk -l, you can tell from that your drive is > not enabled. Check your BIOS settings to see if the SATA channels > are enabled, etc. >
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