Paul Sherwin wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:40:07 +0100, Ian Bell <ruffrecords@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I have an old Celeron PC based on an Intel 815 chipset on an ATX
>>motherboard. It has 2 IDE controller connectors. The primary one has a
>>hard drive and CD writer connected to it. They work fine and I can dual
>>boot salck and win98 from the hard drive and see the CD writer. The second
>>IDE controller has another hard drive on it. The controller is enabled in
>>bios and bios can see the drive. However, neither slack nor win98 can see
>>this drive. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>The primary hard drive is hda and the cdwriter is hdb. Presumably the
>>secondary pair should be hdc and hdd respectively?
>
> Exactly.
>
> Can the BIOS see the devices on the secondary interface? If not,
> you've connected them incorrectly.
>

BIOS sees both drives and CDRW.

> The kernel should probe both IDE interfaces while booting and report
> what is connected. What does it say? (You can review the messages with
> the 'dmseg' command once the system has booted).
>

It just reports hda and hdb, nothing else.

Ian