Adding second disk problem

[larsme]

Hi! I have just installed Amahi on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system running on an old HP-MSS home server. I did the Linux install on another 32-bit machine, booted the HP-box with the transplanted drive in the bottom bay and made the Amahi installation via the Net. Now I just cannot get the system to see any added second hard drive. I have tried several disks with ext3 and ext4 file systems and also NTFS file systems, and I put them in with the Amahi system up and running. If I insert the second drive before booting, the HP-MSS won't boot at all.
Amahi seems to have a lot of the functionality I need and in a few months we shall have a fibreoptic internet connection here, which will make the system even more useful.
Hoping for advice!
larsme
(Lars.Smedman@paravida.se)

[bigfoot65]

Additional hard drives are not automatically detected in Amahi. You have to manually add them using this guidance.
https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Adding ... o_your_HDA

[larsme]

Thanks for the swift reply! I read the wiki thoroughly and my problem is with the first step of the process described there. The response I get from the command "ls -1 /dev/disk/by-id/ | egrep -v "part|scsi"" is

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 aug 22 11:15 ata-ST31000340NS_9QJ13T93 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 aug 22 11:15 dm-name-HP--MSS-root -> ../../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 aug 22 11:15 dm-name-HP--MSS-swap_1 -> ../../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 aug 22 11:15 dm-uuid-LVM-4P37RIwA2iF6XvFDNC832vWe2rhcMMf9f52Um3c4izzr7WYfwQ3fEpsGoydE7RlQ -> ../../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 aug 22 11:15 dm-uuid-LVM-4P37RIwA2iF6XvFDNC832vWe2rhcMMf9qn2sHVT48mM03RjrmU5XcI042V7rfIoW -> ../../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 aug 22 11:15 usb-SMI_USB_DISK_AA04012700041999-0:0 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 aug 22 11:15 wwn-0x5000c5000d4655cf -> ../../sdb

Obviously the OS remembers the usb disk I attached previously but the entries starting with "dm-" I do not understand. The output does not change when I add another SATA disk while the system is running and when I try to boot with the second disk already in, the system does not come up. The HP is headless and has no display connector. I tried pressing the return-key repeatedly on a USB keyboard, but no booting takes place.....
Hoping for your patience!
/larsme

[bigfoot65]

Not sure either what is going on. Might take a look at this guidance in the wiki.
https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Instal ... art_Server

Not sure if it will help, but worth a shot.