Total Newbie - Where are my HDs

[ewanrg]

Latest Linspire release has broken my system, and the latest Mandrake release (10.0) keeps choking on the install to my main HD. So it looks like I'm moving to Fedora Core.

System seems to come up just fine, but it doesn't seem to be mounting my two other internal drives (recognized as hdc and hdd when the system was installing) or any of my four external firewire drives.

Are they there and I just need to do something to mount them? If so, what's the "magic"?

Thanks in advance!

[ghenry]

Issue a fdisk /dev/hda as root then press p for print. It will show all your drives.

[Pegasus]

Take a look at your fstab file in /etc.

I've had the same: hdc wasn't avail and installation even didn't recognize this hd.
I mounted it manualy:

$ su
Password:
# cd /mnt
# mkdir soundfiles
# mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/soundfiles
# exit
$ exit

Now you're able to access the drive via Filesystem. But only until next reboot!
Permanent access: check /etc/fstab and insert hdc1 to mount automatically

[imdeemvp]

Goto Symtem Tools >Hardware Browser >Hard Drives
they will be listed there also...

[ewanrg]

Well, the two internal drivers were found and added to /etc/fstab per the suggestions above.

However, while the Hardware Browser shows both of my firewire cards, it doesn't show any of the four drives attached to those cards.

Running lsmod doesn't show any of the 1394 drivers I would expect, and modprobe doesn't seem to find any of them either (assuming Fedora uses modprobe).

Any thoughts?

[cgriffin]

Isn't this because firewire was disabled in FC2 due to kernel problems (for your external firewire drives, that is):

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1987

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2124

[Pegasus]

@charlie: exactly!