On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:51:27AM -0800, Ron Heron wrote:
> Try #fdisk -l /dev/hdd
> This should paint a good picture for you of what the problem is.
#fdisk -l /dev/hdd
-> gives no response (just a new cmd prompt)
#fdisk /dev/hdd
gives:
Unable to open /dev/hdd
> --- Tom Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:07:32PM +0000, Arnoud de Jonge wrote:
> > > > Noticing that I only have 54 megs left on my / partition, I decided
> > to
> > > > slot in a second hard drive on hdd and partition it up for /tmp /var
> > > > and a second swap. I created new mount points: /tmp2 /var2 and
> > > > formatted the hard drive using diskdrake. Problem: I accidentally
> > left
> > > > one of the drive's old partitions mounted. diskdrake moaned, so I
> > > > unmounted and started again. Success. Then I restarted the machine
> > > > into single user mode to transfer things across and re-name the
> > mount
> > > > points. Problem: hdd seems to have vanished. hdparm says:
> > > > # /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdd
> > > > /dev/hdd: Device not configured
> > > >
> > > > hdd is no longer visible in diskdrake, so I tried restarting off the
> > > > cdrom to see if the install procedure could see the hard drive and
> > its
> > > > partitions. It can and I successfully deleted the old partitions.
> > Then
> > > > I restarted into standard boot-up - still no luck. I'm stumped!
> > >
> > > Check if /dev/hdd still exists. If it is gone you'll have to recreate
> > > it. I have no access to a Linux box right now, so I can't tell you how
> > > right now.
> > Thanks for the quick response, but /dev/hdd (and /dev/hdd1-16) all
> > exist, and they have the same modification dates /mod settings as all
> > of the other /dev/hd? drives.
