[PLUG] Finding and mounting a second SATA drive
Richard C. Steffens
rsteff at comcast.net
Fri Apr 6 16:07:22 UTC 2012
When my wife walked into her home office this morning she was greeted
with an acrid smell and found that her computer was not running. We're
guessing power supply, but will let the folks at Pacific Solutions make
sure it's not something in addition to that.
While I have convinced her to do backups, she does not do them as often
as I think she should. Knowing that her machine might have to sit with
Pacific Solutions for more than today I offered to pop her drive into my
USB drive box and get a few files for her. I opened up her machine and
found a SATA drive. My drive box is for IDE drives. Sigh.
Next, I remembered that my "new" desktop also has a SATA drive. I
powered down, opened up, connected her drive to a spare SATA connector
on the mother board, plugged in the drive power and rebooted.
Now for the real problem: How do I find that second drive? I did a bit
of Googling and found fdisk -l. But that only shows my drive:
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007d83e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 59628 478959616 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 59628 60802 9424897 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 59628 60802 9424896 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I didn't find /dev/sdb or anything similar.
This is now an educational exercise since I put her drive back in her
machine and she has taken it to Pacific Solutions, but I'd still like to
know what I'm missing in case the issue arises again.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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