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

[Bryan Stillwell]

I haven't been paying complete attention to this thread, but perhaps you
still have your secondary master set to CD-ROM in your BIOS?  Try
changing that to auto-detect...

Bryan

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:55:08PM -0700, Michael Crosiar wrote:
>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...