mounting 2nd (sata) hard drive on 10.1

rob0t · 08-14-2005, 08:56 PM

Hello, another question, but how would I mount a 2nd hard drive (which is Sata, WD 250Gig)? I tried doing mount /dev/sdb /mnt/blah but it would say that there was no block device found. I also tried hdb. I tried different letters to both sdx and hdx parts yet nothing worked.

i'm using stock bare.i 2.4.x kernel on a 80Gig ATA drive. It already has 2 NTFS partitions on it, all detected during the install, but the Sata drive wasn't detected. Do I have to load any modules, since I heard that's what I would have to do.

The Sata drive already has a NTFS partition with media and stuff, and it worked fine and was detected on SuSE 9.3. My motherboard is Intel D865Perl with the 865G chipset.

All help appreciated, thanks.

PS: I also tried the LQ Wiki but it had nothing on Sata drives. Also, fdisk -l gives me nothing

gbonvehi · 08-14-2005, 10:34 PM

Does your kernel support SATA drives? If it is, you should get some reference about it on boot (check that info with dmesg).
The kernel that supports SATA and comes with Slackware is called sata.i. You could add that kernel or compile one by yourself with sata support.

Basel · 08-14-2005, 11:08 PM

Hi,

You need the sata.i kernel to read SATA HD. If you have bare.i kernel installed then do the following after booting Slackware CD1

Code:

# mkdir /mnt/hd && mkdir /mnt/cdrom
# mount -o rw /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd
# mount -o r /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
# cp /mnt/cdrom/kernels/sata.i/bzImage /mnt/hd/boot/vmlinuz
# zcat /mnt/cdrom/kernels/sata.i/System.map.gz > /mnt/hd/boot/System.map
# cp /mnt/cdrom/kernels/sata.i/config /mnt/hd/boot/config
# chroot /mnt/hd
# /sbin/lilo -v

You can refer to the following post for more info
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=345631

rob0t · 08-15-2005, 02:19 PM

Oh cool, I reinstalled Slackware (had nothing on it but tons of dependency failures) and I chose the sata.i kernel and guess what? It worked! I can finally mount the sata drive. Thanks a bunch.

rob0t · 08-15-2005, 02:24 PM

Also, one more thing, when editing fstab do I put "1 0"

here's my fstab:

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /c ntfs ro 1 0
/dev/hda2 /f ntfs ro 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

so I would put "1 0" just like the other partitions on the other drive?

Here's my mtab by the way: /dev/hda6 / reiserfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /c ntfs ro 0 0
/dev/hda2 /f ntfs ro 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/g ntfs rw 0 0

/dev/sda1 being that new drive and it has "0 0"

Thanks

gbonvehi · 08-15-2005, 03:33 PM

To see what you should put on 5th and 6th fstab fields read: man fstab
That should explain their meaning.

rob0t · 08-15-2005, 04:05 PM

Thanks, it works