troubleshooting ls120 mount problems
I need some advice in troubleshooting mount problems. I've got al ls120 superdisk that I'm trying to mount. I've installed it as the secondary device on my main ide channel, behind the boot hard drive. Here's what I've got in my fstab: /dev/hdb /media/ls120 vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 And when I try to mount, with mount /media/ls120 I get: mount: special device /dev/hdb does not exist So, I'm thinking the drive might be dead? Or not being recognized? How do you troubleshoot such a thing? Thanks for your help.
Re: troubleshooting ls120 mount problems
ChadDavis wrote: I need some advice in troubleshooting mount problems. I've got al ls120 superdisk that I'm trying to mount. I've installed it as the secondary device on my main ide channel, behind the boot hard drive. Here's what I've got in my fstab: /dev/hdb /media/ls120 vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 And when I try to mount, with mount /media/ls120 I get: mount: special device /dev/hdb does not exist So, I'm thinking the drive might be dead? Or not being recognized? How do you troubleshoot such a thing? Thanks for your help. /dev/hdb is the whole disk I doubt you want to mount it like this. #dmesg | grep hdb should give you some idea whether its seen #cfdisk /dev/hdb will tell you about the partitions. I suspect you need to change the 'hdb' in fstab to 'hdb1' if you only have one big partition on the disk. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: troubleshooting ls120 mount problems
Redirecting to list ChadDavis wrote: /dev/hdb is the whole disk I doubt you want to mount it like this. #dmesg | grep hdb should give you some idea whether its seen dmesg gives me : sudo dmesg | grep hdb [17179574.996000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio Seems like there's something there, but no indication that it recognizes it as the device it is. I would expect to see more about the disk than this eg. on my system hdb is a dvd-rom and I get #dmesg| grep hdb ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA hdb: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8585F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) Probably time to check the cables and jumpers on the disk in question, maybe swap a few around as see what happens. #cfdisk /dev/hdb will tell you about the partitions. This fails with fatal error: can not open disk drive. It doesn't look like its recognised the disk. As an aside I think you may benefit from installing hdparm and setting the DMA mode of your disks to improve performance (currently pio which IIRC is not the best). HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
