Re: [cobalt-users] Adding 2nd drive to Raq4i, doesn't appear in gui

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> I guess this is where I am confused, what needs to be done manually
> and what needs to be done through the gui.  When I originally
> installed the drive (new, not partitioned), it was not recognized
> by the gui at all. All I saw was the original entry for my existing
> 'home' partition, and even that was greyed out

That should be greyed out, as we don't want people accidentally 
deleting their main partition etc... it's just listed there for 
informational purposes so you can see how big the drive is, etc.

I took a quick look through the script that deals with all this 
(/usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/disk/diskAdd.cgi.  It looks like this 
script wants to format and partition the drive itself. All the "heavy 
lifting" is done in the Perl module 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Cobalt/DiskUtils.pm...

All you _should_ need to do is put a new blank (completely 
unformatted, etc) drive in the system and deal with it through the 
UI.  If you made any manual entries in /etc/fstab, pre-formatted the 
disk, etc, the script will most likely fail in some fashion.  Also 
double-check the jumpers on the drive and ensure it's set to be a 
master.

You may want to try using fdisk or something and see if you can remove 
all the partition info, undo anything manual that you did, and try 
again...

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Bruce Timberlake

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