On Sunday 21 December 2003 23:25, John Schofield wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply!
>
> HarM: Yes, it's cabled as master. I always welcome idiot-checks.
> {smile}
You're welcome (grin)
>
> derek: It's ide-scsi. Which I don't really understand, since it's a
> standard ATA CD-ROM, but I commented-out the line anyway, which didn't
> make a difference after reboot. Symptoms unchanged. I'm afraid I
> don't understand what you mean when you say use /dev/hdd instead. Do
> you mean I should remove the ide-scsi line I currently have commented
> out and replace it with a line pointing to /dev/hdc? This doesn't seem
> correct, because the CD-ROM currently works perfectly. (If it was
> plugged in and the line in /etc/fstab uncommented.)
>
> HarM: Are you sure it would be /dev/hdc and not /dev/hdc1? The HD is
> partitioned into several volumes. (I have tried mounting /dev/hdc,
> /dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2, etc. with no change.) Plus DiskDrake still
> doesn't show me any tab for /dev/hdc.
Yes, I'm sure...that way you mount the whole disk i.e. all partitions.
>
> Thanks very much for your help, folks! Any other suggestions?
>
>
> Schof
>
> On Dec 21, 2003, at 1:52 PM, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 9:37 pm, John Schofield wrote:
> >> I've recently installed Mandrake on an IDE drive (master on primary
> >> channel). I have some files I want to get off some other hard drives
> >> before I wipe them. I removed my CD-ROM temporarily and cabled the
> >> IDE
> >> HD in its place as master on secondary channel. I started out by
> >> attempting to "mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hd2" and get "special device
> >> /dev/hdc1 does not exist."
Which makes me think: Could it be that the cd-rom was a CD-writer?
If so there are probably still lines in lilo (/etc/lilo.conf) like append
/dev/hdc=ide-scsi.
Remove those lines from /etc/lilo.conf and run "lilo" (as su/root) to make it
stick.
Good luck,
HarM
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