You are correct. The person who setup the server didn't install the sata data cables for the other drive bays. It's amazing that the kernel is able to see the Drive's model number without the data cable. Thank you for your help. On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 03:50 +0000, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > On 05.18 16:09, John Stile wrote: > > I am new to Fedora Core, and have a Fedora Core 2 system running on > > one sata drive. I added one additional sata drive but dmesg below > > says, 'ata2: SATA port has no device'. > [snip] > > Two questions. Do you have evidence that your new drive is actually > functional? Do you have evidence that the SATA connector that you're > using on the MB is functional. > > FWIW, it appears that the kernel "sees" the device but is unable to > probe it, which would suggest that the drive is not functioning > correctly, or that its not connected correctly. >
