Using SUSE 9.1 + KDE 3.2 File Manager. Even tho I have a second hard disk, I do not know how to see the second hard disk, access it or use it. From reading past notes here, I have a feeling, I have to mount the drive.
I am not an expert in Linux, more like a newbie...so please help, but do not assume
I know what you may consider to only be common sense....

I need a detailed explanation of how to access my 2nd hard disk and how to see it in a file manager as different from my primary hd.

BTW, SUSE 9.1 installer (YaST) saw the second hard disk, so I assume the kernel was compiled knowing there is a second hd.

Will I see more than one device in KDE File Manager if the 2nd hd is mounted? Which config file, if any, do I need to amend to automatically mount the 2nd drive when I boot into Linux?

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Please tell us what is the format of your second harddrive, /dev/hdb1! Here are some examples so pick the right one...
mkdir /mnt/second

(for FAT32)
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/second
(for NTFS)
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/second
(for Linux filesystem--ext2/ext3)
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/second

And if one of the three above works, you may want to edit your second HD in /etc/fstab so it will be mounted automatically upon boot. You can look at the syntax in there and follow it.

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I think it is reiser fs. It was NTFS as I took it off of a Win XP computer.

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why try to mount a partition without knowing anything about it?? A simple
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
will show all the partitions, with their types, on your 2nd drive. For example:
/dev/hdb1 6 FAT16
/dev/hdb2 6 FAT16
/dev/hdb3 83 Linux

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