[lug] Adding Sata drives help

[Hugh Brown]

I'm assuming that you are also on the same controller?

I believe it should just work.  Does dmesg not show them after booting
(dmesg|grep sd)?

What are you basing "appears not to see them" on?  Did you try and fdisk
/dev/sdb /dev/sdc and have it fail?

Hugh

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Paul Nowosielski wrote:

> George,
>
> Sorry, I should have stated this in my original post.
> The main drive for my workstation is a sata drive. So I don't think thats the
> problem.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Paul Nowosielski
>
> On Wednesday 28 June 2006 14:39, you wrote:
> > That's running a fairly old kernel. Most likely the chipset for the SATA
> > controller isn't supported. You could try building a custom kernel and
> > see what happens.
> >
> > Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I have 2 sata drives I've pulled from another Suse box and I'm trying to
> > > install them in my workstation running suse 9.1.
> > >
> > > I've installed them and verified their existence in the BIOS.
> > >
> > > When Linux boots up it appears not to see them.
> > >
> > > I am running Yast the Suse configuration tool to
> > > find the drives.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on how to solve this?
> > >
> > > Thank you,