Hard drive not found by 2010 [SOLVED]

[twoolley]

I've been using PCLinuxOS for several years with the latest being an upgraded 2009.  Trying to install 2010 but it does not recognize the second hard drive (Maxtor 60GB IDE) and identifies the first one (Maxtor 6.4GB IDE) as sdb1 instead of hdb1.  I need both disks for the install.

fdisk -l with existing 2009 install

Disk /dev/hda: 6448 MB, 6448619520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xec30d4f2

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         714     5735173+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2             715         784      562275    5  Extended
/dev/hda5             715         784      562243+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdd: 61.5 GB, 61492838400 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 119150 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001715c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdd1   *           1       40641    20482843+  83  Linux
/dev/hdd2           82573      119150    18435217+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdd3           40641       82573    21133507+  83  Linux
/dev/hdd5           82573       98829     8193118+  83  Linux
/dev/hdd6           98830      119150    10241752+  83  Linux



fdisk -l running 2010 live cd

Disk /dev/sdb: 6448 MB, 6448619520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xec30d4f2

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         714     5735173+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb2             715         784      562275    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5             715         784      562243+  82  Linux swap / Solaris


If you need more info let me know.
Tom

[kjpetrie]

What have you got in the secondary master slot, or is it vacant? It may be the kernel needs a master device before it can recognise a slave. You might have to change it from slave to master to get it seen.

[twoolley]

hda is primary master
hdd is primary slave

[kjpetrie]

No, hdd is secondary slave. Primary slave would be hdb.

[twoolley]

Last post was incorrect.

hda is primary master
hdb is DVD as primary slave
hdc is CD as secondary master
hdd is secondary slave

[kjpetrie]

I seem to remember some systems don't like having HDDs as slave when optical devices are master. Maybe the new kernel is one of those. I suspect if you swap master and slave on that secondary channel things will look better.

Everything is sd... now, and the rules are more dynamic, so sda is the running livecd and sdb your primary master drive. When you install sda will become the primary master, sdb the DVD, and I'm not sure the others will be seen until they're swapped.

[twoolley]

It worked, I finally got the time to open the case and make the changes.  My second hard drive is now on secondary master and the CD on secondary slave.  The live CD found both hard drives, installed without a problem and I am now using PCLinuxOS 2010.  Thank you kjpetrie for the help.