OK - so this is really really weird!!! I first double checked to see that the drive was slave and on ide0 chain. Having done that and scratched my head I found this: hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM20.5, ATA DISK drive hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, ATA DISK drive hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 011, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX175E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Although deciding that hdb was indeed a Quantum HDD, my cd's still are staying as hrb and hdc and linux has tried to allocate the what should be hdb device as hdd?!?!?! Anyone had this problem? ...or know how to fix it? Thanks - Dan On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 00:45, Dan Clowater wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 23:50, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote: > > Mike Chambers wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Dan Clowater" <clowater@cogeco.ca> > > > To: <psyche-list@redhat.com> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:03 PM > > > Subject: New HD Revised!?! > > > > > > > Indeed I am talking about the Redhat 8.0 distribution. > > > > > > Kewl. > > > > > > > #./fdisk /dev/hdb > > > > > > > > Unable to open /dev/hdb > > > > > > I don't know much about fdisk myself, but sure you don't use the partition > > > number itself instead of the drive? Like /dev/hdb1 and so on? > > > > > > I'm sure someone will chime in and help. > > > > > > Mike > > > > You might try: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=512 ## just wipe the MBR > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb ## blank everything! > > > > to make it accessible to (c)fdisk. > > > > That's assuming it's /dev/hdb that's unreadable. Probably an HFS filesystem > > which your kernel may or may not be able to read. > > > > If you really want to get into it you can try compiling the hfs module > > assuming you have the kernel source and then mkdir /mnt/hdb(x); modprobe hfs; > > mount -t hfs /dev/hdb(x) /mnt/hdb(x). > > > > I just noted that fdisk doesn't have hfs listed in it's known partition types, > > nor does cfdisk. > > > > Just some random thoughts. > > > > Rinaldi > > -- > > The Devil is wise not because he is the Devil, but because he is old. > > > > > > > > -- > > Psyche-list mailing list > > Psyche-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > > OK - so I have tried all of the suggestions made thus far - frustrated - > I booted into windows - fdisk saw the drive - nuked partitions - and > made a new one and then formatted it which windows is happy with... but > I cannot mount or see it in linux. > > Got this from my syslogger: > > Nov 1 00:39:30 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module > ide-disk > Nov 1 00:39:30 localhost kernel: hdb: driver not present > > also: > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM20.5, ATA DISK drive > hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, ATA DISK drive > hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 011, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX175E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > hda: 40132503 sectors (20548 MB) w/1900KiB Cache, CHS=2498/255/63, > UDMA(66) > ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide > Partition check: > hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 > > > PUZZLED!!!! > > > -- > J. Daniel J. Clowater > clowater@cogeco.ca > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- J. Daniel J. Clowater clowater@cogeco.ca -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
