Server not seeing new hard drive

AndyFed · 2009-10-26 17:46:57

I am a newbie here, I got my test server setup and now I am adding additional HD 500G Seagate to make a shared drive for my mixed network (Win and Ubuntu machines)

I can see the drive in Bios but when I go looking for it through fdisk or df -h it there is no sign of it anywhere.

Another odd thing is if I turn the power off even the bios does not see the hard drive but if I boot the server up and reboot it shows up in the bios.

How can I make the Arch find it and how should can I set it up as Samba share?

BTW I found it easily using Ubuntu CD and foermatted it with two partitions already one NTFS one Ext4

Any help appreciated.

grey · 2009-10-27 11:28:56

df -h only shows mounted filesystems, but fdisk -l doesn't. So you should see it there. Could you paste the output of fdisk -l, and also tell us what you partition scheme is?

Vladman · 2009-10-27 18:44:13

I think Andy forgot to mention that his extra drive is connected to a sata pci card, this may or may not be the problem.
I was trying to help him over skype but I am not as knowledgeable as some of the posters here.

I'm sure its something simple and we'll have figured out.

Vladman · 2009-10-27 18:52:14

grey wrote:

df -h only shows mounted filesystems, but fdisk -l doesn't. So you should see it there. Could you paste the output of fdisk -l, and also tell us what you partition scheme is?

I cant help with the fdisk -l but his partition scheme is as follows:
sda is a basic default install without anything extras or desktop environments.
sdb has 2 partitions, ntfs and ext4 and like I said is connected to a sata card.

grey · 2009-10-27 19:26:18

fdisk -l would really be helpful, even if it only confirms that arch doesn't see the drive at all.
My next guess is that you need to add some modules to rc.conf or some hooks to mkinitcpio.conf.
If ubuntu sees it, you could check which modules ubuntu is using, and then try to add them to arch.
Actually, what is your HOOKS array (its defined in mkinitcpio.conf)

AndyFed · 2009-10-27 20:52:05

Here is my fdisk:

Usage: fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device
E.g.: fdisk /dev/hda (for the first IDE disk)
or: fdisk /dev/sdc (for the third SCSI disk)
or: fdisk /dev/eda (for the first PS/2 ESDI drive)
or: fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0 or: fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 (for RAID devices)

AndyFed · 2009-10-27 20:55:13

grey wrote:

fdisk -l would really be helpful, even if it only confirms that arch doesn't see the drive at all.
My next guess is that you need to add some modules to rc.conf or some hooks to mkinitcpio.conf.
If ubuntu sees it, you could check which modules ubuntu is using, and then try to add them to arch.
Actually, what is your HOOKS array (its defined in mkinitcpio.conf)

# vim:set ft=sh
# MODULES
# The following modules are loaded before any boot hooks are
# run. Advanced users may wish to specify all system modules
# in this array. For instance:
# MODULES="piix ide_disk reiserfs"
MODULES="ide-pci-generic via82cxxx scsi_mod"

# BINARIES
# This setting includes, into the CPIO image, and additional
# binaries a given user may wish. This is run first, so may
# be used to override the actual binaries used in a given hook.
# (Existing files are NOT overwritten is already added)
# BINARIES are dependancy parsed, so you may safely ignore libraries
BINARIES=""

# FILES
# This setting is similar to BINARIES above, however, files are added
# as-is and are not parsed in anyway. This is useful for config files.

lilsirecho · 2009-10-27 21:56:44

Perhaps you need scsi in HOOKS in mkinitcpio............

kazuo · 2009-10-27 22:13:35

AndyFed wrote:

Here is my fdisk:
Usage: fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device
E.g.: fdisk /dev/hda (for the first IDE disk)
or: fdisk /dev/sdc (for the third SCSI disk)
or: fdisk /dev/eda (for the first PS/2 ESDI drive)
or: fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0 or: fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 (for RAID devices)

Ppl asked for fdisk -l not only fdisk, we dont need to see the help messages...

grey · 2009-10-27 22:29:47

Perhaps you need scsi in HOOKS in mkinitcpio............

Well, half of the suggested HOOKS arrays in mkinitcpio.conf include scsi. So it might already be included. We cannot know, of course, because post #7 doesn't tell us.

Last edited by grey (2009-10-28 10:09:42)

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Server not seeing new hard drive

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