[Solved] Hard Disk not detected

creative2innovative · 2012-12-25 20:06:49

Currently i am using 4 hard drives and out of which 2 hard drives are detected and 2 are not. The fasinating thing is that in BIOS all the 4 hard drivers are detected and using a live cd i can access all the 4 drives without any prob. All the 4 drivers are working properly in windows7. It's just in arch linux 2 of my drives are not detected.

Recently i have upgraded my system from kernel 3.6.9 to 3.6.10

the drives are SATA drives. they are connected directly to the motheboard using SATA cables. the live cd i used was Ubuntu. I checked in /sys/block/ and with lsblk. In both of them i can see 2 drives sda and sdb.
Even check the dmesg, but there was nothing related to sdc or sdd. even on boot there were no errors.
They are NTFS formatted and always the 2 same disks are detected.

pls guide me as i am really freaked off due to this prob.

Last edited by creative2innovative (2012-12-26 05:37:55)

Trilby · 2012-12-25 20:08:51

It would help if you provided relevant information ... ANY information.

What are the drives? How are they connected? What was the live CD? How do you know they are not detected / how are you checking?

Last edited by Trilby (2012-12-25 20:09:06)

creative2innovative · 2012-12-25 20:11:59

The drives are SATA drives. they are connected directly to the motheboard using SATA cables. the live cd i used was Ubuntu. I checked in /sys/block/ and with lsblk. In both of them i can see 2 drives sda and sdb.
Even check the dmesg, but there was nothing related to sdc or sdd. even on boot there were no errors.

cfr · 2012-12-25 22:42:26

How are they formatted? Is it always the same two detected?

creative2innovative · 2012-12-26 04:25:27

they are NTFS formatted and yes always the 2 same disks are detected.

WonderWoofy · 2012-12-26 04:37:47

creative2innovative wrote:

pls guide me as i am really freaked off due to this prob.

You can help others here help you by providing more information. Don't expect there to be continued questions simply to ascertain the situation. We are not here to hold your hand or "guide you".

Please try and get creative or innovative in your approach to gathering relvent information. If you process needs to be the move from creative to innovative, so be it. But more information is needed.

creative2innovative · 2012-12-26 05:01:25

WonderWoofy wrote:

creative2innovative wrote:
pls guide me as i am really freaked off due to this prob.
You can help others here help you by providing more information. Don't expect there to be continued questions simply to ascertain the situation. We are not here to hold your hand or "guide you".
Please try and get creative or innovative in your approach to gathering relvent information. If you process needs to be the move from creative to innovative, so be it. But more information is needed.

Let me know which all information is needed, i am not that an expert. You tell me what other information should i post ?

ewaller · 2012-12-26 05:44:01

How about rebooting, and then posting the output of dmesg. It will be long, so be sure to use BBCode 'code' tags. Alternately, install wgetpaste; pipe the output of dmesg through wgetpaste, and post the link wgetpaste provides here.

Edit: Never mind I see you updated with solved while I was posting. But what is the solution?

Last edited by ewaller (2012-12-26 05:45:38)

creative2innovative · 2012-12-26 12:10:04

ewaller wrote:

How about rebooting, and then posting the output of dmesg. It will be long, so be sure to use BBCode 'code' tags. Alternately, install wgetpaste; pipe the output of dmesg through wgetpaste, and post the link wgetpaste provides here.
Edit: Never mind I see you updated with solved while I was posting. But what is the solution?

Thanks ewaller for the reply The prob was that, the capacity of my SMPS ( power unit ) was not sufficient to run 4 HDD + printer + 2 TB external drive. So this was the main reason. When i disconnected the printer and the external drive again all the 4 HDD were detected in my arch machine

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