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Can't access spare HDD from *Browse*. ATI GFX Drivers problem.

Asked by duggie264

Hi there, first my machine specs.
Abit nf-7s
amd barton 3200
1GB Crucial Ballistix
2 x Maxtor 40GB ATA 133
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS
Asus 19" LCD (1440x900 native)

Firstly, upon installation of Ubuntu 7.04, I can not change the resolution to match that of the monitors native resolution, I am limited to 1280x1024.
I changed to the restricted ATI driver to see if I could then get the correct resolution - no joy and now I have no desktop effects.

How can I change my resolution to the correct one for my panel, and when I deselect the restricted driver, will this remove it and replace it with OS provided driver, or will it need manual stripping and installation?

Secondly, and lastly!, I am attempting to use my secondary HDD (installed on IDE 0/S) which is recognised as dev/hdb1. I have managed to format it as FAT 32 and after installing Rhythmbox (basically I want to use it to store my music) I manually entered the location for the music library as "dev/hdb1/Music". However I can not find this hdd amongst the Linux file structure?

How do I get hdb1 to show up when I browse the filesystem? Oh and is it possible to rename the disks something more "user friendly" than hda and hdb?

I have searched previous questions, but found no working answers so far. Can anyone help?

PS Please keep it reasonable basic as I only had my linux cherrry broken last night at 2307!!

Cheers

Duggie

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#1

hdb1 is the internal device name for where its physically located on your computer, typically these raw "device" nodes are mounted somewhere else such as in /media/. for example i have a secondary hard-drive at /dev/hdb1 and i 'mount' it to /media/storage/

there is a guide at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions that seems to be a good one to guide you through mounting partitions

there are also a few possible fixes for your resolution problems here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FixVideoResolutionHowto#head-42bafbcee7a10ed50f2d9016555557b9874be252

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