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Old 12-19-2008, 08:55 AM   #1
Rosiel
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Can not mount SATA hard drives on Debian[etch]


From dmesg I get:
Code:
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
sd 0:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
From lshw -C Disk I get:
Code:
*-disk:0
description: SCSI Disk
product: Flash HS-CF
vendor: Generic
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 4.44
capabilities: removable
*-disc
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/sda
*-disk:1
description: SCSI Disk
product: Flash HS-MS/SD
vendor: Generic
physical id: 0.0.1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.1
logical name: /dev/sdb
version: 4.44
capabilities: removable
*-disc
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/sdb
*-disk:2
description: SCSI Disk
product: Flash HS-SM
vendor: Generic
physical id: 0.0.2
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.2
logical name: /dev/sdc
version: 4.44
capabilities: removable
*-disc
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/sdc
So the drives are there and connected.

And here is my fstab[the part for the SATA drives]:
Code:
/dev/sda       /mnt/E		ntfs    ro,user,noauto,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/sdb       /mnt/C  		ntfs    ro,user,noauto,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/sdc       /mnt/D  		ntfs    ro,user,noauto,umask=0222 0 0
After editing my fstab I did mount -a and even restarted the system but the drives do not get mounted.
The ntfs drivers are installed, I do not know where the problem could be.
 
Old 12-19-2008, 09:29 AM   #2
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you are literally trying to mount the drives and not the partitions on the drives.. I would think you would be mounting /dev/sda1 rather than /dev/sda This may be correct seeings how that is a flash card reader.

could you post the output of fdisk -l
(that is ' dash lowercase L')

That appears to be a multi flash card reader. Flash memory (USB, SD, MMC, XD, etc) are typically formatted as Fat32 not ntfs. You can not mount those drives unless there is a memory card inserted into the appropriate slot.

Code:
description: SCSI Disk
product: Flash HS-CF < - Compact Flash
vendor: Generic
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 4.44
capabilities: removable
*-disc
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/sda
*-disk:1
description: SCSI Disk
product: Flash HS-MS/SD    < - Memory Stick / SD Card
vendor: Generic
physical id: 0.0.1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.1
logical name: /dev/sdb
version: 4.44
capabilities: removable
*-disc
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/sdb
*-disk:2
description: SCSI Disk
product: Flash HS-SM     < - Smart Media 
vendor: Generic
physical id: 0.0.2
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.2
logical name: /dev/sdc
version: 4.44
capabilities: removable
*-disc
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/sdc
Hope that helps clear things up a bit.

Last edited by farslayer; 12-19-2008 at 09:33 AM.
 
  


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