--- Colin Brace <cb@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just put an additional harddrive in my FC5 system, connected to a > new SATA card, the second in my system. (Up to now I have one ATA > drive and two SATA drives connected to the MB, and two more SATA > drives connected to the first SATA card). > > But for some reason, fdisk doesn't see it. > > The PC bios sees it in the HD setup. The SATA card bios sees the drive as well. > > But I am wondering whether Linux recognizes the SATA interface as > such. lspci displays it as:: > > 02:0c.0 SATA controller: Initio Corporation Unknown device 1622 (rev 02) > > where as the first SATA card in my system looks like this: > > 02:0d.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 > [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) > > I am wondering about the "unknown device" string. Should I try a > different SATA card? Or is this just an unimportant labelling thing. > > Thanks for any ideas... > > -- > Colin Brace > Amsterdam I'd go through $ dmesg | less and see if the system assigns a device id to your drive on bootup. === Al
