I get the same kind of configuration on my PII in my office which has 2
Hdd's as hdc and hdd
morever hda,b signifies the controller that the device is on i.e
primary master , primary slave , secondary master , secondary slave which an
ide configuration is capable of
A Hard disk could be at hda and a cd drive could be hdc as it is connected
as the secondary master instead of the primary slave in the configuration ..
Will check more details on my office PC (I'm not supposed to do so due to
some AMC restrictions .. but will try to take a sneek peek)
Here in your case since you do not have a swap partition on /dev/hda6 the
error is prevalent
Remove the corresponding entry from /etc/fstab or modify the same to point
to /dev/hdc6
HTH
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>
> u r 'swapon'ing /dev/hda6 while fdisk shows /dev/hdc6...
> hda = 1st HDD
> hdc = 3rd HDD
>
> There's some panga here !!
>
> do u have 3 hard disks ??!!!!! u normally dont get hdc unless u have 2
> HDDs and a cd drive or 3 HDDs
>
>
>
> > Why do i get this?
>
> swapon: /dev/hda6: Operation not supported by device
>
> Here's a listing from fdisk:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdc1 1 242 487840+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hdc2 243 1023 1574496 5 Extended
> /dev/hdc5 243 484 487840+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hdc6 485 501 34240+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdc7 502 1023 1052320+ 83 Linux native
>
> (5,6,7 are logical partitions in extended partition 2. 1 is primary)
>
> Sandesh Rao
Database Administrator (NSE)
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