On Friday 09 January 2004 02:05 am, Peter Simko wrote:
Greg Meyer wrote:diskdrake as root... me boyo,,, you should be able to make it mount from the gui....
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.
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Oops, should have mentioned that the XP side of the box works fine, and XP is located on hda.
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.
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