On Monday 02 Dec 2002 7:09 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Missing sda
>
>
> My initial install of 9.0 was pretty near perfect, and supermount worked
> flawlessly. Shame I had to mess it up.
>
> The problems started when I tried to get my smartcardreader working. The
> upshot was that sda disappeared totally. I have tried running HardDrake
> but
>
> it just doesn't seem to see the LS120 drive, which was at install
> identified
>
> correctly and mounted as
>
> none /mnt/LS120 supermount
> dev=/dev/sda1,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
>
> Has anyone any idea how I can get the system to find this device again?
>
> Anne
> Kinda sounds like an IRQ conflict. Do you have PNP OS set to no in your
> bios?
Yes - I needed it for win98, which would not run when I disabled it. However,
now that is unavailable (I don't know whether it is trashed, or whether I've
just lost access to it) I could try disabling that.
(BTW - I'm using win4lin for the essential apps, and mostly enjoying it. The
only problem is that I wanted to buy the full product through Mandrake, and
can't find how to. The trial runs out soon, so I may have to buy direct from
NeTraverse)
> Take a look at your IRQs and see if there are ones with more than one
> device using the irq. If usb and /dev/sda are both trying to use the same
> irq that could be the problem. HTH
They look pretty full. The only shared ones are
5 usb-uhci, usb-uhci, eth0
10 ide2, ide3, ohci1394
Of course, I've no idea what sda was needing.
I'll try disabling pnp in bios tomorrow - I daren't start something tonight :)
as I'm not altogether with it.
All ideas gratefully received, as always
Anne
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