hard disk failure?

indole · 02-17-2005, 12:13 PM

Okay, I need more swap space on this computer as it is my torrent box. I was going to slice up a larger drive and use it but no matter the slave/master config the bios just wouldn't load it. Does this mean it is prob. dead?

So then I just threw in a smaller 4G drive I have and I can't get fdisk to open it:

Code:

Unable to open /dev/hdb

So now what?

Matir · 02-17-2005, 12:46 PM

Was it added as /dev/hdb? Look in dmesg. How old is the computer that it can't see the large HD? And how "large" is large?

jiml8 · 02-17-2005, 07:22 PM

How do you have the hd connected? IDE slave? The channel isn't disabled in bios is it? You aren't setting jumpers on a cable select cable, are you?

indole · 02-18-2005, 12:41 AM

I think these are the relevent bits:

Code:

Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 90840D6, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: CD-ROM CDU701, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide3...
ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide4...
ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe !
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 16406208 sectors (8399 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=16276/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
 hda: hda1 hda2
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide

I have no clue what this means and I have to be too work in 7 hours, for a 10 hour day : )

Thanks though!

And a "Duhh" on my part, this is a P2, when 4 gig HDs were common. I don't have time to check it right now but I will.

jiml8 · 02-19-2005, 07:49 PM

From what you posted, hdb is simply not being detected. I repeat my earlier questions.