Robert Hancock wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> The only way I can get this box to boot is to disconnect the data >> cable on a drive with 121 badblocks as somehow ASUS and JMicron-pata >> all seem to think its /dev/sda when hooked up, and it is no longer >> bootable. I'm presently booted from a sata drive on that interface, >> which this ASUS board has about 8 of. > > The bad disk is PATA? > >> >> So I've booted with the data cable off, and hooked it up once booted. >> Unforch there seems to be no discovery of its presence. >> >> No /dev/sdd stuff was created when I plugged the data cable into the >> drive. >> >> The install is the August 2008 F8 respin and is uptodate. >> >> How can I make the system aware that it is now there? It has about 40 >> Gb of data I'd like to recover if I can. echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan > Hotplug isn't supported with PATA, so you shouldn't really try that. > Fedora installs usually use labels for the disk partitions, so it > shouldn't matter what device node the disk gets detected as? It isn't but if you're willing to accept the risk of frying the controller and/or the drive, it works. I sometimes do that which sometimes makes the whole machine shut off instantly. :-) -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
