I'm adding a 300GB hdd to a older P4 with intel D850MV mobo Running updated box as of 2 days ago. On bios inspection, this drive appears to be properly recognized, size etc.
On bootup the dmesg record shows it being seen and recognized (hdc in this output). You may notice it is already partitioned and the partitions are recognized too. I did that from a knoppix session with fdisk. (On this same box) so knoppix was able to see and partition it. When booted up under gentoo, fdisk does not see this disk and complains of not being able to open /dev/hdc/ There is no /dev/hdc. The symlink was not created. Further the name gentoo uses of the form: ls -l /dev/hdb lrw [...] /dev/hdb -> ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc One would expect an ide/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/disc for /dev/hdc How are these created? What is likely the cause of it not happening by default? =============== Dmesg snip [...] hda: MAXTOR 6L060J3, ATA DISK drive input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 hdb: WDC WD600BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... ** hdc: WDC WD3000JB-00KFA0, ATA DISK drive hdd: ATAPI CD-RW 32/12/40X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Probing IDE interface ide2... Probing IDE interface ide3... Probing IDE interface ide4... Probing IDE interface ide5... hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 117266688 sectors (60040 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 > hdb: max request size: 128KiB hdb: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hdb: cache flushes not supported hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 > ** hdc: max request size: 1024KiB ** hdc: 586072368 sectors (300069 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=36481/255/63, UDMA(33) hdc: cache flushes supported hdc: hdc1 < hdc5 hdc6 > hdc2 [...] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
