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Renton007
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 Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:26 am Post subject: Reiser harddrive was working, Now it doesn't show up[SOLVED] |
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nothing changed in fstab. One day the harddrive was no longer available.
| Code: | localhost mnt # mount -a
mount: /dev/hdd is not a valid block device
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Does anyone have any ideas? let me know if/what info you need.
Thanks for any help.
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mathgeek
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:51 am Post subject: |
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Can you mount the desired partition manually? E.g. by doing
| Code: | | mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/somedirectory |
What filesystem are you using? Did you change anything in your kernel? Or did you add/remove any piece of hardware? How come the drive is called hdd? Do you have four hard disks in your system? The reason I'm asking is that I mixed up the cables once and so I ended up with my cd being hda.
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Renton007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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I can not mount the drive manually, it gives the same error as I posted earlier.
my other filesystems are ext2 & ext3. The failed one is Reiser.
No change in the kernel.
it is hdd because I've got 3 harddrives and had a cd-rom. The cd-rom got broken and started causing boot-up problems so it got removed.
The drive hdd worked fine after that for a while, then stopped. I opened the case and wiggled and jiggled wires and the drive came back online after a reboot. This time no amount of jiggling has helped, I also tried the connector that once was for the cd-rom.
I'm pretty sure that it is some hardware problem, I just can't find it.
Is there a way to list what harddrives are in the system?
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desultory
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Renton007 wrote: | | Is there a way to list what harddrives are in the system? |
If sysfs is mounted, ls /sys/block/ should list all of the hard drives along with some other devices.
If sysfs is not mounted, lshw (sys-apps/lshw) should still be able to find the hard drives, lshw -C disk -short will list all disks and partitions thereof. |
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Another quick way to list all harddrives, and the partition tables is
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Renton007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:04 am Post subject: |
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Well nothing shows hdd, only my first two drives show up. I'll try swapping my two secondary drives around tomorrow and I'll let you know how it goes.
thanks for your help! |
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bombcar
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| Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:37 am Post subject: |
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| hdd will be the secondary slave drive. It will be connected to the secondary IDE port on your motherboard, and would have a jumper setting it as slave. If it is the only drive on the cable, it should be master, most like. |
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Renton007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:04 am Post subject: |
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Well it seems to have been the Master/Slave settings. After removing the cd-rom I should have changed the jumper on the drive as well.
Thank you for all of your help. |
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