Second SATA hard disk doesnt show up

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I’ve installed 500 GB SATA hard disk but SUSE doesnt see it. The BIOS recognized the disk. What do I do in order to get the disk show up as sdb.

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Open a terminal and as su -

post result of:

fdisk -l
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Here it is -

Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 63 83891429 83891367 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 146801970 541245914 394443945 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 83891430 146801087 62909658 a5 FreeBSD
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (281,10,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (227,15,63)
/dev/sda4 * 541245915 625137344 83891430 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 578998665 587384594 8385930 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 587384658 625137344 37752687 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 541246041 556347014 15100974 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 556347078 578998664 22651587 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 0 4194303 4194304
/dev/sda10 4194304 12584959 8390656
/dev/sda11 12584960 20973567 8388608
/dev/sda12 20973568 62900223 41926656

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Have you actually formatted it? Like with Parted?

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I cant see the disk from livecd.

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Re-check all the connections.
Use Parted Magic

Do you have windows? Can it see the disk?

If you still can’t see it. then I would suggest it’s Jeffed!

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Windows do not see it. I am now reading manual from producer website and it says ‘User should configure (set master/slave) the disk before install’. I removed the disk and set it as a slave. Buntu live cd can now read it. Doing Disk tests atm.

Will post the outcome.

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Never heard that with SATA - v. odd

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Yeah, its strange, its Samsung (better than chinese). I misplaced the manual earlier but managed to resolve it now.

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Good news. Well done!

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Thanks mate.

You are always helpful, appreciate it.

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I try a little.

Funny. I just added a 500GB WD HD
I just connected it up and Bingo

I was tempted by this one at ebuyer, but decided on WD

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173804
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I got the disk (6 in all ) for 50 AUD a piece in QLD.