/dev/hdc

[David A. Bandel]

On Tue, 13 May 2003 19:07:57 -0700
Ted Ozolins <ted1 at telus.net> wrote:

> David A. Bandel wrote:
> 
> >
> >Do you actually _have_ a hard drive connected as hdc?  If you don't
> >then the entry is irrelevant and could be the reason devfsd didn't
> >create it.
> >
> >Ciao,
> >
> >David A. Bandel
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> Double checked and yes its there. I then placed another HD in its
> place and its recognised and has the proper entry in /dev/ide~ The
> problem drive will boot and can be partitioned with fdisk (linux) but
> for some reason will not show up if used as a slave under Slack 9.0.
> I'll continue using my other drive as the slave and will retire the
> problem hd. I hate using hardware that miss-behave.

More likely it?s a BIOS problem (although I?ve seen this also happen
with two incompatible hard drives).  A bug in your BIOS probably doesn?t
recognize the hard drive correctly.  So when Linux looks at the BIOS and
sees nothing there (or something unrecognizably ridiculous), it doesn?t
register with the kernel, hence doesn?t build the device.  Alternately,
your master says there?s no slave so the kernel skips it.  This second
scenario happened to me some years ago w/ a Maxtor slave (I forget what
was the master, but it wasn?t Maxtor, probably was a Seagate.).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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