problems mounting
I'm having problems mounting any hard drives other than the one I'm running RH 8.0 on. In addition to that drive, I had a CD rom on the same IDE channel, which mounts fine, and an IDE drive on a secondary IDE channel set to master with a ZIP disk slave on that IDE channel. The drive is formatted FAT32. I also have a SCSI drive running off an adaptec card that is configured as scsi device 2.
when I "mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/scsi" I get the error, "Not a valid block device" when I try to mount the IDE drive: "mount -t vfat /dev/hdb /dev/IDE2" I get a longer error message that says it is either the wrong file system, a bad superblock, or I have too many devices mounted. I've ordered a book :study: ... but until it comes in I need some help! Please.....: |
Re: problems mounting
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Also note you're trying to mount on /dev/IDE2, not on /mnt/<something> as usual (mistyping ?)... and, surely your disk is partitioned, guessing on that is just one partition (vfat = M$) so try this: "mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/IDE2" HTH |
Thanks!
That did the trick (/hdc1) And you were right, I mis-typed the directory for /mnt in my post. |
What about the ZIP and the SCSI ???
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The Zip, which is the slave on the second IDE channel, mounts just fine.
The SCSI, I still have no luck with. It's a kind of strange setup with the drive I'm trying to mount being an IDE drive connected through a SCSI to IDE converter to SCSI id 02 on an ADAPTEC 29320 card with a hardware write blocker installed. I can read the drive fine in DOS 6.22, Win98, and Win2K. My linux newbie-ness appears to be keeping me from connecting to it when booting to linux. :confused: |
Could you post your /var/log/dmesg file ?
(at least the logging of the scsi subsystem startup) Also, if cdrecord is installed in your system, you may see the scsi drive issuing a "cdrecord --scanbus" command. |
Is this the section you mean?
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Also, further down near the end of the file I saw this: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: SONY Model: DVD+RW DRU-120A Rev: 1.13 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 I can post the entire (long) dmesg file if you want, but I thought I'd try this first. I had tried the cdrecord -scanbus command, and it just lists my DVD burner, no other scsi devices. Thanks again! |
Re: problems mounting
Post the output of:
Code:
lsmod Code:
cat /proc/scsi/scsi |
Here it be:
Code:
[root@nts2 root]# lsmod and ... Code:
[root@nts2 root]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi |
It looks like you don't have the driver for your SCSI card installed.
You need to figure out which driver works for it, and either find it in /lib/modules/. . ./kernel/drivers/scsi or build it from the kernel source. |
I agree with moses, isn't loading the hardware level driver... model of your controller ? vendor ?
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It's an ADAPTEC 29320
One of the newer ones ... perhaps that's part of the problem? |
That card should have come with drivers for RH 8.0. You could
probably browse Adaptec's web site and download the driver if you don't have it. . . |
Look http://www.adaptec.com, I can see specific drivers for RH8 & your controller card
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ok .... thanks for all your help so far, and I hope you haven't tired of my sophmoric knowledge of Linux yet. I installed (I thought) the drivers like so using the rpm
rpm -ivh aic79xx-1.1.0-rh80.i686.rpm It acted like it took, but on reboot, no change, I'm still not seeing the scsi drive anywhere... |
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