This morning I got an error when trying to start X: After rooting around I realized the source of the problem: my users no longer had /home directories which were stored on my 115gb drive on a raid controller. Next step was hard drive diags. The raid bios picks up the drive just fine. I can't mount it in slack. I get this error
I try to view what's on (or gone off) the drive thru cfdisk and I get this error
The only thing thats been changes since this happened is I hooked up a slave drive to the motherboards primary IDE, partitioned it for an ext2 and a swap (prep for a new linux machine) and did the mkfs.ext2 and mkswap commands. Disconnected the drive, reconfigured my jumpers and booted back up. Since then, no more hdg1, where my users store their /home

Look in the bios, and use the fdisk -l command to see how the drives are now mapped. Perhaps the systems primary ide controller was not enabled before. I'm not certain in your post, whether you or not you have raid setup or where just using the raid controller as an ide controller. A raid partition device would show up as /dev/md#. A scsi or sata would show up as /dev/sd#

The fdisk output may show a large partition that doesn't coorespond with any of the /etc/fstab entries.

Yes, I'm using the raid card as an ide controller. I did the fdisk -l and found that my /home drive is now hde instead of hdg. I guess moving drives around changed it. I changed my fstab to hde1 and all is well. Thank you!