(SOLVED) secondary ntfs drive not detected by PClinuxos 2010

[noniespclinux22]

Hello guys,

I have an existing 40Gbyte hard drive with 20Gbyte XP and 20Gbyte PCLInuxos configured as dual boot.
I added another drive 320Gbyte and formatted it to ntfs since I have to transfer files from the xp partition.
Windows XP can detect the drive with no problem. On PClinuxos, the 320Gbyte drive is not detected. The 40Gbyte drive is detected without a problem in PCLinuxos. How do I configure PCLinuxos to detect the 320Gbyte hard drive because I want some files to be transferred on the new drive also from PCLinuxos.

Your prompt response is greately appreciated.

Thanks and regrds,
Nonie

[T6]

is it a ide or a sata?

if it is a ide is it sharing the same ide with the other 40gb hard disk?

can you see the hard disk(320gb) in pclinux control center/local disks/manage disk partitions

it should see sda and sdb, being sda the hard disk with linux and sdb the 320 gb hd

[bicol_willem]

Try the NTFS configuration tool you find in Menu > More applications > Configuration

[noniespclinux22]

Hello guys,

It is a sata drive 320Gb and the 40G is an ide drive.
It doesn't show in the pclinux control center/local disks/manage disk partitions.

This is very strange.

Any suggestion will be a big help

Thanks,
Nonie

[noniespclinux22]

Hello guys,

Tried also the ntfs configurator and it only shows the 40Gbyte drive.

It might have something to do with the mounting the drive but it should automatically be detected right?

This is quite a puzzle, wonder why is it like that?

Thanks and rgrds,
Nonie

[Texstar]

The problem is you did not have a sata drive when you installed and now you do. You need to have the OS load a sata driver so your sata drive can be used. You can either boot your livecd and copy the /etc/modprobe.conf from the livecd to the installed partition which should contain the drivers for the sata drive or your can backup your /etc/modprobe.conf and rerun the hardware detection from the installed partition as root  /usr/share/harddrake/service_harddrake --force which should write a new /etc/modprobe.conf with the sata driver needed. You would need to reboot afterwards so the driver can load during the boot process.

[noniespclinux22]

Hello Texstar,
Thanks for your prompt reply. I will try it soon. Cheers....

Nonie

[noniespclinux22]

Hello Tex,

I tried  as per your instruction. Unfortunately the secondary drive is still undetected. I might have overlooked something or my PClinuxos is not updated fully.

What I did is I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.33.7-pclos6 kernel to 2.6.37.2-pclos1 and after rebooting the system the secondary drive was already detected. I didn't test it by just reinstalling the 2.6.33.7 kernel as it may or may not solve the problem. Anyways I did the upgrade straight away.

Thanks for this awesome distro.

Nonie

[uncleV]

What does
fdisk -l
say?
Run it in Terminal with root privileges, please.