Slave Hard Disk

[alip]

OK - A common problem this and will hopefully be met with a quick answer.

I had 2 disks on my machine, 40Gb Master and 10Gb Slave.
I have just replaced the 10Gb Slave with another 40Gb drive (identical to the Master). The problem is getting this drive recognized.

The BIOS seems to see it, however when I run fdisk and format it only sees approx 6Gb.

Any ideas?? My BIOS can see the Master OK!!!

 

[InsanityRmx]

1) Are the jumpers on your slave drive set to slave?

2) Does the master have different jumper settings for Master and Master w/Slave?

3) Do both drives have the same settings in your CMOS setup screen?

4) Did you answer 'Yes' to 'Use LBA?' when you (or whoever) *initially* fdisk'ed it? If not (or you're not sure) remove all the partitions, reboot, and rebuild the partitions making sure to answer yes to "Use LBA" when starting fdisk.

 

[alip]

Thanks for the response.

I was aware of all these points and had (I thought) carried them out. However, point 2 intriged me, so I change the jumper on the master to master with slave and rebooted - this time it did not see the master. Changed it back, rebooted and reran fdisk on the slave and it was fine!!! Bizarre - not sure what the problem was now!!!