On Thursday 13 January 2005 12:06 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Thu 13 Jan 05, 11:40 AM, Jonathan Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > >On Thu 13 Jan 05, 11:26 AM, Dylan Beaudette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >>On Thursday 13 January 2005 11:16 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > >>>Can you post the output of: > > >>> > > >>> mount > > >>> > > >>>and: > > >>> > > >>> hdparm /dev/hda > > >>> hdparm /dev/hdb > > >>> hdparm /dev/hdc > > >>> hdparm /dev/hdd > > >>> hdparm /dev/hde > > >>> hdparm /dev/hdf > > >>> hdparm /dev/hdg > > >>> > > >>>If any of the output says "no device" or something to that effect, > > >>> don't bother posting it. IIRC, you have to run hdparm as root, even > > >>> when you just want to query the hardware. > > >> > > >>interesting.... > > >> > > >>all devices return a "No such device or address" error from hdparm. > > >> mount gives the same type of error. > > > > > >That's hinky! > > > > > >Time to start shooting with buckshot. Maybe we'll hit something. > > > > > >Can you tell me a little bit about your kernel? > > >Is it a distro supplied kernel? > > >Did you compile it yourself? > > >Do you have more than one kernel on this machine? > > >Where did THEY come from? > > >What mobo do you have? > > >Can you boot Knoppix and use your CD drive? > > >Can you boot Knoppix and try the test with mount/hdparm? > > >If Knoppix works, grab a copy of `lsmod`. > > >Can you cut and paste what "mount" responds with so I can see verbatim? > > >Please post /etc/fstab. > > > > > >Pete > > > > If I may interject, it seems to me like he did not build, or does not > > load, the correct kernel part for his ide driver. For most of us on > > inexpensive, IDE hardware only, we wouldn't even be able to boot (been > > there, done that). He can still boot, though, because his harddrive is > > SCSI. I could be wrong, though. > > > > Jonathan > > Yeah, I thought of that, but what bothers me is whether you use SCSI or > IDE, the mount command should STILL tell you what partitions are mounted. > Even a user of all-SCSI systems should still be able to see mounted > partitions using "mount". But it's certainly worth asking. > > Dylan, are all your hard drives SCSI?
No. In fact nothing on this system is SCSI.... The Debian/Sarge 2.6 kernel thinks that my SATA hard disk is SCSI -- or rather it addresses it as a SCSI drive. I noticed this after a recent upgrade from 2.4 series to 2.6 series kernels.... However, the 2.6 series kernel does not seem to address my standard IDE Plextor DVD/CD drive as a SCSI device... -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech