Disk Drives in Fedora 3
 

Hi All,

I've just installed Fedora 3 for the first time. I've got two additional drives on the machine but I can't seem to find them (or mount them) in Gnome. My previous installation was Suse and that was working fine but now i can't fnd my data drives. The Hardware browser show's they're there but i can't access them.

Can anybody offer me some advice?

Thanks
Ngentot! :)

You need to add them to your /etc/fstab. Take a look at your /etc/fstab for a guide on how to add them.

while u r root, run
/sbin/fdisk -l
it will give you info about disks and their patitions. so u can mount.
u may also want to mount them automaticly, so add records in /etc/fstab

btw u cannot mount nfts file system. if u want to mount ntfs u must get ntfs kernel module.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=13956

good luck.

Thanks for the info,

I edited /etc/fstab but still can't see the drives...

The drives filesystem is reiserfs, what else can i do?

Thanks
Ngentot! :)

Hi All,

Sorry... I've tried editting and re-editting /etc/fstab but nothing is working... Man, this frustrating.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Thanks
ngentot! :)

Once you've edited your fstab, you'll need to mount the drives for the first time, e.g. "mount /dev/hdb1" (no quotes, and replace hdb1 with the correct block device for your disk). The fstab file tells the system which files to mount on boot, so editing it ensures the drives get re-mounted on reboot.

It will help us pinpoint your problem if you can post specific error messages, your fstab file and the output of
fdisk -l.

BTW did you create a directory for each partition you want mounted?

Hi All,

Thanks for your great reponse. I've managed to get the drives working but now i can't mount my cdrom.

I've used the following in /etc/fstab

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso96660 noauto,user 0 0

but i get the following error message:

mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist

I'd reallly appreciate some advice.

Cheers,
Ngentot! :)

FC3 calls the CDrom something else. A big pain for upgrades. I think it's hdc on my machine. Try it from the GUI....

Thanks for your resonse.

Because I've got the two extra drives /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd are my drives. Can I assume that /dev/hde will be my cdrom?

Thanks
Ngentot! :)

hehe...you never want to assume anything in Linux, but you're welcome to try...I don't think you can do any hard if hde doesn't exist. If you use KDE you should have the CD-ROM icon on your desktop. Right-click that and under one of the tabs it shows what it points to. You can click on the dropdown menu and it says (CD-ROM) near the one which is the right entry for a CD-ROM.....at least it does on mine.....

Hmmm... I'm still not having any luck. It's almost as if the drive doesn't exist. I'm now getting "mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist".

Can anybody help?

Thanks
Ngentot! :)

post the current configuration of your pc.

Redazz,

Here's my fstab and fdisk -l output...

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /data1 linux defaults 1 2
/dev/hdd1 /data2 linux defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,exec,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0



Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20496236544 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39714 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 203 102280+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 204 39714 19913544 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 77545 39082648+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdd: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 4865 39078112 83


Thanks
Ngentot! :)

Did you add this line?

What does the following command say:
dmesg | grep CD

If /dev/cdrom does not exist you can add it via the command:
ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom

Replace hdb with the actual device name.

Michael,

Here's the output...

[root@linux ~]# dmesg |grep cd
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 0000c400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: irq 11, io base 0000c800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2

What do you suggest I do?

Thanks
Ngentot! :)

Hmmmm.... Still having problems... I can't find the CDROM drive....

Can anybody help?

Thanks
Ngentot! :)

did u try this. it should fix your trouble.

good luck.

Remember linux is case sensitive:

dmesg |grep CD

Do you have any idea how the drive are connected. Which is master / slave and what controller?

You might want to look at the entire output of dmesg.

Here's the PC configuration...

IDE Controller 1:
Master: hda - Start-up Drive
Slave: DVD ROM

IDE Controller 2:
Master: hdc - Data Drive
Slave: hdd - Data Drive

For some reason Fedora isn't picking up the CDROM. It appears in the BIOS but the OS doesn't seem to recognise it.

Hmmm....

Ngentot! :)

If you have a DVD, I would do the following:

dmesg|grep DVD

This will now tell you what device it has assigned. In addition, if it is a DVD, then in /mnt you will see dvd and not cdrom.

I my system I get the following when I issue dmesg:

dmesg |grep DVD
hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

and
dmesg |grep CD
hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

Then when I do a ls /mnt I get:

ls /mnt
dvd samba usbflash

If the DVD is writeable you'll also have the following in /media:

ls /media
cdrecorder

Hope this helps

Thanks for the help E.

gmesg | grep DVD

returns nothing

and CD returns
A public key.

I'm thinking i've got an iterrupt issue. What do you think?

Cheers,
Ngentot! :)