second hard drive

[geomcd1949]

Two computers, each with a primary SSD (on which Ubuntu 12.04 is installed) and a secondary HDD.

On the first computer, when I click the Home folder icon, I get a window that shows the second hard drive as a Device - it is shown as 1 TB File system.

On the second computer, when I click the Home folder icon, there is no category for Devices in the window that appears, and no sign of the second hard drive.

On each computer, when Ubuntu was installed, I didn't do anything that I think would have any effect on configuring hard drives - no gparting or anything like that - I just put it the bootable CD and followed the directions that came up.

My question is, how do I get the second hard drive on the second computer to show up in the list of things in the Home folder?

Thanks!

~George

[Mk32]

Are they both formatted with the same filesystem?

Use gParted to find out if they are.

[oldfred]

Does BIOS see drive.
Is drive an internal drive or external?
What format are partition(s) on external drive.
Post this which may answer some of those questions automatically.

sudo parted /dev/sda unit s print

sudo blkid -c /dev/null -o list

Post above in code tags using # on advanced editor in reply. That preserves formatting.

[deadflowr]

Edit:<Deleted> I thought of something different than the point of this thread.

I'd follow oldfred's advice and make sure the drive is being read by BIOS.

[geomcd1949]

Keeping in mind that this is the Absolute Beginners Section,

1. Don't know how to determine if the BIOS recognizes the drive,

2. Drive is internal,

3. Don't know how to determine the format petitions - drive is internal,

4. sudo parted /dev/sda unit s print
Model: ATA V4-CT128V4SSD2 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250069680s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 2048s 183670783s 183668736s primary ext4 boot
2 183672830s 250068991s 66396162s extended
5 183672832s 250068991s 66396160s logical linux-swap(v1)

5. /dev/sda1 ext4 / bbe886ab-4837-40f4-bf87-18375b775200
/dev/sda5 swap <swap> fac380ab-db75-4910-bf29-a506b84485ef

(sorry - don't understand posting instruction)

6. Don't know how to determine if they are formatted with the same filesystem, nor how to use gparted to determine this,

Sorry I don't know how to answer some of the questions.

~George

[oldfred]

Also should have asked for this:

sudo parted /dev/sdb unit s print

If it shows then BIOS has seen drive as no operating system can show a drive that BIOS has not seen. Command shows formatting or may give an error message if an issue.

[geomcd1949]

sudo parted /dev/sdb unit s print gives:

Error: /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label

[oldfred]

Disk label should not be an issue.


This command shows UUID, but also shows labels

sudo blkid -c /dev/null -o list

You can edit labels with Disks or Disk Utility or with gparted. I might make sure you only have text or number and no special characters.

[geomcd1949]

speedbird@speedbird-desktop:~$ sudo blkid -c /dev/null -o list
[sudo] password for speedbird:
device fs_type label mount point UUID
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sda1 ext4 / bbe886ab-4837-40f4-bf87-18375b775200
/dev/sda5 swap <swap> fac380ab-db75-4910-bf29-a506b84485ef

[oldfred]

That is not showing any partitions or any part of sdb?

From Disks or Disk utility can you click on second drive? On the right it has Smart Status. It can run a lot of tests but all I really know is passed or failure.