On Saturday 10 January 2004 03:30 am, Peter Simko wrote: > et wrote: > >On Friday 09 January 2004 02:05 am, Peter Simko wrote: > >>Greg Meyer wrote: > >>>On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: > >>>>I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot > >>>>machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used > >>>>for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware > >>>>configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda > >>>>drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I > >>>>manually created the block device nodes in > >>>>/dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using "mknod hda b 3 0" for the disk > >>>>and "mknod hda1 b 3 1", etc for the three partitions. I then linked the > >>>>devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the > >>>>devices and keep getting "mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block > >>>> device". Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of "hda: driver not > >>>> present" warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely > >>>> seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable > >>>> again? > >>> > >>>Sounds to me like you have a loose or faulty IDE cable. I had this > >>> happen once where the cable was just loose enough to cause all kinds of > >>> disk errors, but enough of the pins were connected to ID the drive to > >>> the BIOS. > >>> > >>> > >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> > >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >> > >>Oops, should have mentioned that the XP side of the box works fine, and > >>XP is located on hda. > > > >diskdrake as root... me boyo,,, you should be able to make it mount from > > the gui.... > > Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This is > really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs from an ATA > controller card, but I got rid of that and put both drives on IDE 0 to > simplify my system. That changed hdf to hdb without a problem (with > appropriate changes to fstab), but somehow hde just went 'poof' and > disappeared instead of showing up again as hda. well then set the jumper from cable select to master on the back of the hda drive.
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