installed new hard drive - now can't find it

[jludwig]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 16:38, Dana Holland wrote:
> We just installed a new SCSI hard drive in our Dell box - it was the 4th 
> of a 4-drive chain.  We're running RH 7.3 on the box.  During boot up we 
> see that it recognizes the new device, but it doesn't give any kind of 
> label or anything else to identify the new drive.  After the system 
> boots up, we can't find the drive to partition it.  How do I find it?
> 
> 
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First and foremost dmesg will allude to the drive, so check dmesg,
ksyms.0 in the directory /var/log/.

Second if it is a new drive it will be something other than /dev/sda*
since you already have a drive sda. If I remember it should be /dev/sdb

Email a copy of your dmesg if need be.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>