[NCLUG] New 80GB maxtor won't fdisk...

[Michael Crosiar]

I think you are on the right track, there used to be a
rewritable CDROM on hdc. I checked modules.conf and
didn't see /dev/hdc referenced here.



--- Michael Dwyer <mdwyer at sixthdimension.com> wrote:
> C. Michael Crosiar wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I recently purchased a 80GB Maxtor. The BIOS
> recognizes the drive, and on
> > bootup Linux says it recognizes the drive on hdc,
> which is correct. But when
> > I go to fdisk the drive I get the message "Unable
> to open /dev/hdc". I
> > checked /var/log/messages, and it is reporting :
> > 
> >     modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> ide-disk
> >     kernel: hdc: Driver not present
> > 
> > of coarse it has to be, or my existing ide drives
> wouldn't work, right?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> I thought that ide-disk was only for use on devices
> like SuperFloppy and 
> ZIP devices.  You might check the modules.conf file
> to see if that is 
> somehow attaching special drivers to the /dev/hdc
> device -- especially 
> when /dev/hdc is often where a CD-ROM or the like is
> expected to live... 
> Otherwise, it should be used the regular IDE device
> driver that is 
> usually built into the kernel (so you can boot off
> it...)
> 
> For what it is worth, my problem was the opposite --
> the BIOS (and 
> therefore Lilo) couldn't recognize the drive, but if
> I gave it vaugly 
> correct geometry, it would work... and then, of
> course, Linux discovered 
> the REAL geometry as soon as the kernel took over.
> 
> Hope this helps a little...
> 
> 
> 
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