On 2020-10-13 08:39, Dennis Wicks wrote:
David Christensen wrote on 10/12/20 10:01 PM:
On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote:
I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with
new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes
booting it only sees two of them. Do I have to do something to linux
so it sees the third drive?
FYI, I have the system disk in sata-1, the drive on sata2 is not
seen, but the drive on sata3 is seen and in use. The CD/DVD drive is
on sata6 and is also seen.
Thanks for any and all help!
Dennis
Run the following commands as root. If you need help interpreting the
results, post your console session:
# lsblk
# fdisk -l
# mount | grep sd
David
Thanks for the tip, but none of those commands show the third disk, just
two.
What might be /dev/sdc doesn't show up with any command I have tried.
Please run the following commands and post the console session:
$ cat /etc/debian_version
$ uname -a
Boot the Debian 9 or 10 installer, run the following commands, and post
the console session:
# smartctl -i /dev/sda
# smartctl -i /dev/sdb
# smartctl -i /dev/sdc
# smartctl -i /dev/sdd
Mark your cables with labels and serial numbers, and keep track of your
patching configurations.
The suggestions of re-patching and checking dmesg are valid. I would
connect the system drive to each port in turn, bootint the installer
rescue shell, checking, booting the system drive, checking, and
comparing results. I would then put the system drive on the first port
and try the problem drive on the remaining ports, both with the
installer rescue shell and with your system drive.
Have you checked your drives recently using the manufacturer diagnostics
utility?
David
