Hi!

I'm using SuSE 8.0 installed on a harddisk on primary master. This harddisk has 3 paritions, one running windows and the other linux (root and temp), LILO is the boot-manager.
For communication between the 2 OS's I installed another hd on secondary slave, formatted it with FAT32, which works great for windows. But when I'm booting Linux the hd doesn't respond to the boot-commands. After 10 minutes of booting Linux works fine, but without my second hd, which is simply invisible.

Is there another thread concerning this problem (which I didn't find) or do you need the boot-log of SuSE?

Hi

what boot-comands for the 2nd HD?

I assume you should boot as there would be no second HD an then (auto-) mount it in the running system... Hope this helps...

Adrian

The start-log tells me something like "hdd: disk not ready for command"???

I'll post the boot.msg later today.

How do I mount an invisible and non-existant drive? If it is possible, how?

Hi again!

I don't know how skilled you are...

what means non existant drive? How would you mount?

Did you try to mount it by command line, like

mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /your/mountpoint

What happens then?

Adrian

My skills concerning Linux don't exist, I'm a newbie for sure.

Here's my boot.omsg. I cut out most lines and left what I consider being helpful...

<4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcf0-0xfcf7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
<4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcf8-0xfcff, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
<4>hda: ST317240A, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdc: LTN382, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<4>hdd: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3200A, ATA DISK drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<4>blk: queue c031ece4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
<4>hda: safely enabled flush
<6>hda: 33683328 sectors (17246 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=2096/255/63, UDMA(33)
<4>blk: queue c031f1a4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
<4>hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
<4>hdd: set_drive_speed_status: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
<4>hdd: failed write cache flush, disabling ordered write support
<6>hdd: 6281856 sectors (3216 MB) w/76KiB Cache, CHS=6232/16/63, DMA
<4>hdc: no flushcache support
<4>hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
<4>hdc: drive not ready for command
<4>hdc: ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0xd0
<4>hdd: DMA disabled
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
<6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
<4>ide-floppy driver 0.99
<6>Partition check:
<6> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
<6> hdd:hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
<4>hdd: status timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>hdd: drive not ready for command
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 2
<4>hdd: status timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>hdd: drive not ready for command
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 4
<4>hdd: status timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>hdd: drive not ready for command
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 6
<4>hdd: status timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>hdd: drive not ready for command
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
<4>hdd: status timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>hdd: drive not ready for command
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 2
<4>hdd: status timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>hdd: drive not ready for command
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 4
<4>hdd: status timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>hdd: drive not ready for command
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>ide1: reset: success
<4>hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy }
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 6
<4> unable to read partition table
<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

I tried it with
mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /comm
but it didn't work: "Invalid device block". I experimented with the options fat=32, blocksize=512, debug, the result was the same.

Finally I used the option -f, which stands for "force" I guess, and the device was mounted. After changing to the /comm mountpoint (which is simply a folder I created before) I created a new textfile, but I wasn't able to edit it in KWrite, although I had permissions and was logged in as root.

ouch...
what says
fdisk -l /dev/hdd
?

I've some ideas, but i've to verify this on my LinuxBox @ home...

ok, my fault...
try
fdisk -l /dev/hdd
as root. Then you should see a listing of all Partitions on that drive. I assume there will be only hdd1
mount this instead of hdd and it will work.

The other thing is, that you say linux takes more than ten minutes to boot??? How this?

Regards
Adrian

Most of the booting time has to do with the hdd disk. If I plug it off before booting Linux comes up very fast.

I'll try the fdisk thing later today.

Not sure, had this problem with a CDROM, tried to read from a bad CD, got this Msg.
Or perhaps troubles with IRQ... Try enabling the "Plug & Play OS " option in BIOS.. if not already done...
You could try to move around some PCI-Cards...

Else... i don't know more... bad luck... ?