Description of problem:

the RH 9 cannot figure out the second hard drive which has been
formatted under Windows 2000. RH9 only assigned it as hdc but
/dev/hdc is not present for fdisk

Please reply also to sunyf.edu

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
100% 

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
#fdisk /dev/hdc
hdc: driver not present
unable to open /dev/hdc

Expected results:  able to use fdisk on the hard drive
#fdisk /dev/hdc
to perform fdisk functions


Additional info:


     The second hard drive in the modular bay of my DELL Precision
     Mobil workstation M60 is not usable. It is recognized during the
boot
     as  hdc: FUJITSU MHT2040AH, ATA DISK drive

     I am running RH9 with Linux Kernel 2.4.20-13.9


The dmesg shows:
-------------------------------------------------------------
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi

hda: HTS726060M9AT00, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03cbfa0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: FUJITSU MHT2040AH, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03cc404, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 117210240 sectors (60012 MB) w/7877KiB Cache, CHS=7296/255/63,
UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
 hdc:end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 6
 unable to read partition table
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide

--------------------------------------------------------------

After shutting down, there was a message like:

flusing devices hda, hdc