Second hard drive problem
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I wanted to install a second hard drive using /dev/hdc. However, after installation, I could not even fdisk it. But if I boot using the MEPIS live CD, it is able to recognize the hard drive. I played around with my fstab to no avail. I wanted to use the second hard disk for backing up files from the first drive. I even switched from /dev/hdc (master) to /dev/hdd (slave) but the same error would show up. Once I do an fdisk, it is as if the hard disk did not exist. If fdisk can't see it, then I cannot mount it at all. I have formatted the drive several times using boot cds which could see the drive. But once I boot from my first drive using MEPIS, then I get the error that it does not recognize the drive at all.
ext3 hard drive
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The drive is ext3 formatted. The last format was the result of my installing MEPIS live cd onto the drive. Then I erased the files so I could make it a secondary drive. No problem. Without reformatting, I make the drive a secondary drive (either hdc or hdd) then my system does not recognize it. My system consist of a primary hard drive containing MEPIS, a cd burner and a secondary hard drive which MEPIS does not recognize. The bios recognizes it. When booting,the bios properly identifies the drive. But after fstab, an error occurs because the drive is not recognize. I read somewhere in the internet that MEPIS has problems if the system has more than one drive? MEPIS rocks. Except for this little problem.
dunno
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this machine has a lot of drives in it, hda, hdb, hdc is a dvd reader, hdd is a dvd burner, hdf is on a promise controller and I can buy a few more disks to hang off that yet.
yes, mepis finds them all.
post the fstab that isn't working, maybe that will allow us to work it out.
liz
my fstab
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/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda2 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
none /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
#My Modification
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 ext3 auto,exec 1 1
/dev/hdc2 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/hdc3 /mnt/hdc3 ext3 auto,exec 1 2
#Others
/dev/floppy /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
Thanks Liz. I am glad to know that MEPIS can do more than one hard drive. Now if I can just get this to work.
mount points
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I know that it is basic, but has root created the mount points?
whose fdisk
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is it linux fdisk or is it windows fdisk?
basics - is it set to master or slave on the drive itself?
is it recognised in the bios?
if it is master, then it will be /dev/hdc
slave would be /dev/hdd
make sure that the bios recognises the disk and remembers it too.
then it will be findable and you can use linux fdisk to partition it.
Then it will still need a format.
let us know how you go.
liz