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deathcon1
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 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] External drives not mounting |
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So, last night I backed up my entire drive using tar, played with my partitions a bit (EFI was not happy about having 5x "partitions" even though there were only 4x and I had 128mb of space between SDA2 and SDA3, so it had to be fixed, but the space needed to goto SDA4.) So, fix the partitions, restore the tarball, everythings working good except I can no longer mount my external drives (I'm writing this from my laptop.) I've tried watching 'messages' and 'dmesg' when plugging the drives in, but I can't see anything wrong. Tried reinstall gnome-mount, udev, and hal but those didn't fix it either. The drives are NTFS, but so is SDA4 which mounts perfectly with full read/write.
Plugging in:
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tail -f /var/log/messages
Mar 21 18:12:25 Stalker usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
Mar 21 18:12:25 Stalker usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Mar 21 18:12:25 Stalker scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Mar 21 18:12:25 Stalker usb-storage: device found at 6
Mar 21 18:12:25 Stalker usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Mar 21 18:12:25 Stalker NetworkManager: <debug> [1206137545.502725] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_152d_2339_DC07629155FF').
Mar 21 18:12:25 Stalker NetworkManager: <debug> [1206137545.551880] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_152d_2339_DC07629155FF_if0').
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access WDC WD16 00BEVS-22UST0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker NetworkManager: <debug> [1206137550.545812] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_152d_2339_DC07629155FF_if0_scsi_host').
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker NetworkManager: <debug> [1206137550.547035] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_152d_2339_DC07629155FF_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0').
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker sdb: sdb1
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker usb-storage: device scan complete
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker NetworkManager: <debug> [1206137550.562891] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_152d_2339_DC07629155FF_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0_scsi_generic').
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker NetworkManager: <debug> [1206137550.622678] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_WDC_WD16_00BEVS_22UST0_DC07629155FF_0_0').
Mar 21 18:12:30 Stalker NetworkManager: <debug> [1206137550.738694] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_04F06475F0646F3C').
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dmesg
usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 6
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access WDC WD16 00BEVS-22UST0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete |
Ideas?
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guruvan
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what is the box's response if you use the mount command on the command line?
these are mounted via the ntfs driver? ntfs-3g?
My first guess is there are errors on the ntfs partitions; you'll have to have windows chkdsk /f them. Since you said "fix the partitions" I'd bet that these are not marked clean.
(unless there's new toys I don't know about)
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coolsnowmen
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| guruvan wrote: |
My first guess is there are errors on the ntfs partitions; you'll have to have windows chkdsk /f them. Since you said "fix the partitions" I'd bet that these are not marked clean. |
he said fix the partitions on his /dev/sda (primary) disk and now his sdb doesn't mount
@deathcon1
do you see partitions? as in
does fdisk -l return anything about the drives after the've been plugged in and settled (10 seconds?)
Can usb sticks be mounted?
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deathcon1
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Both drives have been mounted and written to/read from in both OS X and Windows XP, so I'm farily certain that the FS itself is intact. I can see the partitions using fdisk -l (as you can see here).
| Code: | fdisk -l
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2a562a55
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 26 204819+ ee EFI GPT
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 26 11576 92772760 af Unknown
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 * 11576 14202 21099985 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 14203 19457 42210787+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x470fcb52
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf9d1200b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 30400 244187968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
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coolsnowmen
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| guruvan wrote: | what is the box's response if you use the mount command on the command line?
these are mounted via the ntfs driver? ntfs-3g? |
And to your other helper's question?
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deathcon1
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| Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:00 am Post subject: |
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Just tested, turns out the ntfs3g driver in portage is taking Good Friday off, so I'm compiling the in-kernel one right now see if it'll accept the holiday pay.
Edit: Well, with ntfs built into the kernel I no longer mount my windows partition, same story with the externals. Switching back to the userland ntfs driver so I can at least mount my local windows partition. |
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guruvan
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what ntfs options are set in your kernel?
do you get any errors in /var/log/messages when you try to mount the partitions?
these aren't VISTA ntfs partitions? (just to be sure.....)
do you need a file from my repo to get ntfs3g running? (if you can't get something from the gentoo sites to get going, you can get one from me....I should have the distfiles you need)
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deathcon1
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry for the delay in updates, Easter weekend, family, blah blah blah.
So I believe these are Vista formatted NTFS partitions (I have my reasons for using Vista, as unfortunate as it is).
As to settings in the kernel they are: (copy/pasted right out of menuconfig).
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│ │ <*> MSDOS fs support
│ │ <*> VFAT (Windows-95) fs support
│ │ (437) Default codepage for FAT
│ │ (iso8859-1) Default iocharset for FAT
│ │ <*> NTFS file system support
│ │ [ ] NTFS debugging support
│ │ [*] NTFS write support |
Edit: No, no errors reported in messages or dmesg. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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bercik,
Vista does not use MSDOS partition tables.
For the kernel to see Vista made partitiond you need gpt support.
Do not use fdisk to modify a gpt partition table as fdisk cannot read it properly.
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deathcon1
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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Solved the issue. Turns out if you install GParted it will cause HAL to ignore USB devices
| Code: | | rm /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/gparted-disable-automount.fdi |
fixed the problem for me. |
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