2nd Hard Drive not found

Asked by loanrepjoe

I recently installed Ubuntu 6.10 on my PIII 450 MHZ Gateway machine. Whereas the program works, there are some things that still aren't working.

This machine used to run windows 98 on it. It was purchased new in 1998. The hard drive was added a couple years back to supplement the 13 GB drive already on it. The second harddrive is 20 GB.

When I installed Ubuntu on this machine, I reformatted the master HD for Ubuntu. It works fine. However, I cannot seem to access it, nor do I really understand how. Please excuse my ignorance in this area.

What information do I need to get to you? In one of the other posts, someone gave the instructions to go to the Disk Information. I don't have that option. Am I missing something? The second drive was not formatted for Ubuntu as it held all the data files I need. How do I access these?

Let me know what I can do to make it work. Thanks for taking the time to help a newbie.

Joe

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said :
#1

It might be that you haven't mounted the second harddrive.

You can open a commandline terminal and run the following commands one it and paste the output back here:

sudo lshw -c disk

and

cat /etc/fstab

Thanks

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said :
#2

Here is some information how to install a second drive:

http://www.smorgasbord.net/book/export/html/195

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said :
#3

Make this

sudo lshw -C disk

above ;-)

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loanrepjoe (loanrepjoe) said :
#4

family@BigJuan:~$ sudo 1shw -c disk
sudo: 1shw: command not found

or if I input

family@BigJuan:~$ sudo lshw -c disk
Hardware Lister (lshw) - B.02.06
usage: lshw [-format] [-options ...]
       lshw -version

        -version print program version (B.02.06)

format can be
        -html output hardware tree as HTML
        -xml output hardware tree as XML
        -short output hardware paths
        -businfo output bus information

options can be
        -class CLASS only show a certain class of hardware
        -C CLASS same as '-class CLASS'
        -disable TEST disable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )
        -enable TEST enable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )

family@BigJuan:~$ cat /etc fstab
cat: /etc: Is a directory
cat: fstab: No such file or directory

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loanrepjoe (loanrepjoe) said :
#5

family@BigJuan:~$ sudo lshw -C disk
  *-cdrom:0
       description: DVD reader
       product: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8584A
       physical id: 0
       bus info: ide@1.0
       logical name: /dev/hdc
       version: n13F
       capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio dvd
       configuration: mode=udma2
     *-disc
          physical id: 0
          logical name: /dev/hdc
  *-cdrom:1
       description: CD-R/CD-RW writer
       product: TDK CDRW5200B
       physical id: 1
       bus info: ide@1.1
       logical name: /dev/hdd
       version: 67U4
       capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio cd-r cd-rw
       configuration: mode=udma2
     *-disc
          physical id: 0
          logical name: /dev/hdd
  *-disk:0
       description: ATA Disk
       product: WDC AC313500D
       vendor: Western Digital
       physical id: 0
       bus info: ide@2.0
       logical name: /dev/hde
       version: J76OA30K
       serial: WD-WT6680088319
       size: 12GB
       capacity: 12GB
       capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: mode=udma2 smart=on
     *-volume:0
          description: Linux filesystem partition
          physical id: 1
          bus info: ide@2.0,1
          logical name: /dev/hde1
          capacity: 12GB
          capabilities: primary bootable
     *-volume:1
          description: Extended partition
          physical id: 2
          bus info: ide@2.0,2
          logical name: /dev/hde2
          capacity: 556MB
          capabilities: extended partitioned partitioned:extended
  *-disk:1
       description: ATA Disk
       product: WDC WD200EB-00CSF0
       vendor: Western Digital
       physical id: 1
       bus info: ide@2.1
       logical name: /dev/hdf
       version: 04.01B04
       serial: WD-WTAAV4200222
       size: 18GB
       capacity: 18GB
       capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: mode=udma4 smart=on
     *-volume
          description: W95 FAT32 (LBA) partition
          physical id: 1
          bus info: ide@2.1,1
          logical name: /dev/hdf1
          capacity: 18GB
          capabilities: primary bootable

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said :
#6

Linux detects the second HD and also the partition on it. I believe it is just not mounted. Here is some documentation how to do this:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions

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