HarM: Yes, it's cabled as master. I always welcome idiot-checks. {smile}
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.
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."
HardDrake lists both hda and hdc under the disks drop-down, but when I select hdc and choose "run config tool" DiskDrake only shows me an hda tab; there's no tab for hdc.
I have tried this with two different known-good disks; exact same result from both.
Any suggestions for further troubleshooting?
Thanks very much!
You need to edit your /etc/fstab file to let it know /dev/hdc is no longer a
CD drive The format should be self explanatory. You can comment out the old
entry with a '#' at the beginning of the line. Then reboot and it should find
your drive.
If the CD-ROM is defined as ide-scsi, then it is a bit more complicated. If
your /etc/fstab has no entry for /dev/hdc but does have an entry for
/dec/scd0 then it is ide-scsi The simplest way around this issue is to use
/dev/hdd instead (The alternative is to rewrite your boot sector which is
more hassle)
HTH
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