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jkruer01
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 Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject: Adding a second harddrive |
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I got a new computer and have it loaded and everything is working. Now, I am in the process of hooking up my old harddrive to my new computer so I can copy all the files I need off of it. I connected the harddrive and booted up, but when I try to mount /dev/hdb6 to /mnt/tmp it gives me the following error:
| Code: | | mount: /dev/hdb6 is not a valid block device |
Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong.
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Jeremy |
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lopez
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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Will give you a list of your partitions. Select a valid partition to mount. Also might want to pass a filesystem type when you mount it.
Example:
| Code: | | mount -t ext2 /dev/hdbX |
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JRV
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject: Re: Adding a second harddrive |
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| jkruer01 wrote: |
| Code: | | mount: /dev/hdb6 is not a valid block device |
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Well, _is_ /dev/hdb6 a valid block device? That is, have you hooked up your old HD as a slave to your first IDE channel?
What does
show?
Also, try
| Code: | $ fdisk /dev/hdb
...
Command (m for help): p <RETURN> |
and see if it recognizes your disk at all.
Greets,
Julius |
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jkruer01
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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ok, when I do
I get the following:
| Code: | bash-2.05b# dmesg | grep hd
Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x318 splash=verbose video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap udev)
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x318 splash=verbose video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap udev console=tty0
Using local APIC NMI watchdog using perfctr0
hda: HDS728080PLAT20, ATA DISK drive
hdc: HL-DT-ST GCE-8526B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1719KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63
hda: cache flushes supported
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
ReiserFS: hda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda3: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda3: journal params: device hda3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda3: checking transaction log (hda3)
ReiserFS: hda3: Using r5 hash to sort names
Adding 1004052k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1
ReiserFS: hda4: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda4: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda4: journal params: device hda4, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda4: checking transaction log (hda4)
ReiserFS: hda4: Using r5 hash to sort names
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when I do
I get the following:
| Code: | bash-2.05b# fdisk /dev/hdb
Unable to open /dev/hdb
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Obviously, I don't have the harddrive hooked up correctly, because it is not reading it. Any suggestions?
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JRV
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| jkruer01 wrote: | | Obviously, I don't have the harddrive hooked up correctly, because it is not reading it. Any suggestions? |
Go into your system's BIOS and see if it recognizes your HD _there_. If not, either
1) You didn't connect it correctly,
2) You have a Motherboard/BIOS problem or
3) You have a broken drive...
Greets,
Julius |
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jkruer01
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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ok, stupid mistake. I had it as my master hard drive on my old system and I forgot to change the jumpers to make it my slave hard drive. All works now.
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