How do I list new drives so I can partition and format them?

I added a bunch of drives to an external enclosure and attached it to a server via eSATA and now need to get them ready for software raid. However they do not appear under fdisk -l

I've tried looking in /dev/disk/by-path and /dev/disk/by-id. The RAID card appears in dmesg. Plugging and unplugging the eSATA enclosure does not cause anything to "happen" when I tail /var/log/syslog

There is a decent chance that the eSATA card I am using in the machine is faulty (I found it laying around). But before I purchase a new one I want to make sure I am not missing anything obvious.

Solution 1:

Run parted interactively, then use the print devices command, like below:

sudo parted
GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/xvda1
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print devices                                                    
/dev/xvda1 (8590MB)
/dev/xvdb (429GB)

Solution 2:

Try running the command ls /dev/sd*.

This should list all drives on the system with their device names. Compare that to the output of fdisk -l which will show the current list if you don't know which are which.