<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 14:00, Hans Müller wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>> is the output from the rescan script: > > Host adapter 1 (ide-scsi) found. > Host adapter 0 (sbp2_0) found. > Scanning for device 1 0 0 0 ... > OLD: Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: CDRW/DVD SM-308B Rev: T100 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Scanning for device 1 0 1 0 ... > OLD: Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 > Vendor: PHILIPS Model: DVDRW1208 Rev: 1.34 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Scanning for device 0 0 0 0 ... > OLD: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: WDC WD25 Model: 00JB-32FUA0 Rev: 0.01 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > 0 new device(s) found. > 0 device(s) removed. > > although it looks better, I still cannot see the disk, 'fdisk -l | grep > Disk' shows this: > > Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40000000000 bytes > Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes > try fdisk /dev/sda </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> It worked!!! I was connecting the FireWire controller to the PCI2 on a Dell Dimension 8200 and it didn't work. Now I'm using PCI4 instead and it works great. Thanks a lot for your help luis. <PRE><TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <PRE>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luis Hernandez Felipe Tel +34 922 425449 Computing Facilities Group FAX +34 922 425401 Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes e-mail luis@ing.iac.es Apartado de Correos 321 Santa Cruz de La Palma 38700 Canary Islands Spain ----------------------------------------------------------------------------</PRE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>