Dear All,
    
     I went over the archives and could not locate any solution.
Hope experts on this mailing -list can help me on solving
my second hard drive problem:


     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:
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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
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I remember that during the boot, there was a message like
 hardwaremodprobe can not locate module ide-disk ...



After booting, I got the following errors:

#fdisk /dev/hdc

hdc: driver not present
unable to open /dev/hdc


After shutting down, there was a message like:

flusing devices hda, hdc

The detailed dmesg log is attached.


The drive was originally partitioned as Dynamic. I used Partition Magic to
convert it to Basic partition and it was formatted to two FAT32 partitions
under Windows 2000. Now I would like to use it as a linux file system
if I could use fdisk to repartition and format it.


Thanks,

Sun