Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC

2003-12-22 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Schof solved his problem, but I have to disagree with HarM on the subject of mounting disk. Mounting the whole disk (i.e. hdc) works for cdrom, not for hard disk. For these, you can only mount the partition (i.e hdc1). How would the kernel know where to mount your partitions if you did't tell

Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC

2003-12-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 December 2003 09:22, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Schof solved his problem, but I have to disagree with HarM on the subject of mounting disk. I hate to say it but I have to agree with your disagree-ance:) You're right of course, one mounts partitions not the whole disk. I got mount and

Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC

2003-12-21 Thread John Schofield
Thanks for the quick reply! 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

Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC

2003-12-21 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 21 December 2003 3:25 pm, John Schofield wrote: whack Thanks for the quick reply! 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,

Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC

2003-12-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 21 December 2003 23:25, John Schofield wrote: Thanks for the quick reply! HarM: Yes, it's cabled as master. I always welcome idiot-checks. {smile} You're welcome (grin) derek: It's ide-scsi. Which I don't really understand, since it's a standard ATA CD-ROM, but I

Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC

2003-12-21 Thread John Schofield
Thank you, Charlie. Yes, BIOS detects it no problem. Schof On Dec 21, 2003, at 2:32 PM, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 21 December 2003 3:25 pm, John Schofield wrote: whack Thanks for the quick reply! HarM: Are you sure it would be /dev/hdc and not

Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC

2003-12-21 Thread John Schofield
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. Yes, I'm sure...that way you mount the whole disk i.e.

Re: [newbie] Trouble mounting HDC

2003-12-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 10:25 pm, John Schofield wrote: Thanks for the quick reply! 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