Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr. David M. Colburn wrote:
> I have just powered up a newly assembled ATX box with a cleanly
> formatted and SUSE 9 Pro loaded 20g Quantum Fireball Plus LM20.5
> HDD as Master and a much-used Maxtor 6E040l0 40g HDD as Slave.
>
> The Quantum is seen in YaST as hda1, etc., the Maxtor hdb1, etc.
>
> I have tried to set up a desktop icon for the Maxtor but get an
> "in use" error.
>
> I have tried to look at the Maxtor from Konq to no avail.
>
> I do notice that the Grub device map only shows hd0 and fd0
> but fail to understand why YaST would see both HDD's even
> though Grub appears to see only one (not to mention that
> the Grub device map fails to list either the CD reader or
> the cdrw device.
>
> Can someone explain these anomalies, and the solution to
> getting Konq to see my second HDD, please?
>
> I could reverse the cables and the jumpers on the two HDD's
> and see what happens but I really should be able to see them
> in either order and access the Maxtor from SuSE 9 Pro booted
> off the Quantum.
>
> Given that the Quantum is a clean load of SuSE 9 Pro and the
> Maxtor was set up on an older box I think that the Quantum
> should be my Master HDD.

Before you do anything else, examine dmesg after booting, to see if the 
2nd drive was detected.  Then check fstab & mtab for that drive.