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Slackware not finding drives

I just got slackware9.1 installed and running. I Formated my hard drive as follows:
1g swap
4g root (ext2)
35g for programs/files (ext2)

I also have a floppy, DVD-rom and a CD-RW.

however I recently noticed that only my DVD-rom, floppy, and root partistion are seen by slackware.:(

can anyone help me get my drives back?

Post the output of
bash-2.05b# fdisk -l
and
bash-2.05b$ df -h
and
bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/fstab

To make it where we can read it, put [_code_] without the underscores before each section of output, and [_/code_] without the underscores after each section of output.

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.9 GB, 40981118976 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/hda1              1        124      995998+  82  Linux swap

/dev/hda2  *        125        610    3903795  83  Linux

/dev/hda3            611        4982    35118090  83  Linux



Disk /dev/hdb: 8622 MB, 8622931968 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1048 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/hdb1              1        1048    8418028+  7  HPFS/NTFS

Now I see my other two partistions :). btw, no need to worry about hdb1. im gonna install winXp on that.

Code:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/hda2            3.8G  2.7G  1.1G  72% /

looks like im gonna need to move some stuff to hda3 :)

Code:

/dev/hda2        /                reiserfs    defaults        1  1

/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

Hope this helps :)

When you installed you apparently didn't add the swap partition and /home partition during the setting of the mount points. Otherwise they would be listed in your /etc/fstab.

What do you mean when you say:

Quote:

however I recently noticed that only my DVD-rom, floppy, and root partistion are seen by slackware

Where are you "looking" for this to occur?

When you created 35g for programs/files (ext2) did you make a mount point for it? It doesn't look like you have. The Slackware system will not know that you want to place programs/files on /dev/hda3 unless you tell it how to go about doing that. The system needs to know if you want to use that as your /home partition, or leave /home under / and use that for data storage. And your swap partition isn't in /etc/fstab so you didn't add it when installing Slack.

When you said

Quote:

btw, no need to worry about hdb1. im gonna install winXp on that

that produced a red flag. When you install XP, it's going to write over your Slackware LiLO, and you'll need to reinstall LiLO. Not a big problem, but it's recommended to always install Windoze first, Linux second.

You say

Quote:

I also have a floppy, DVD-rom and a CD-RW

but we don't see the CD-RW drive. Actually, we should get a proper layout of your system for you before you go any further. Do you know what drives are in your computer and where they're located? For instance:

/dev/hda = master drive on primary controller
/dev/hdb = slave drive on primary controller
/dev/hdc = master drive on secondary controller
/dev/hdd = slave drive on seconday controller

For that CD-RW drive, is it an IDE ATAPI or SCSI drive? It will need SCSI emulation, and all SCSI drives are listed:

/dev/scd0 = first SCSI drive - they're numbered, with the first drive starting at 0

If you're not sure about your drives, issue
bash-2.05b# cdrecord -scanbus
and post that output like you did before. That will tell us where your CD-RW is located.

And issue
bash-2.05b$ dmesg | less
and look for lines like this

Code:

hda: Maxtor 6Y060L0, ATA DISK drive

hdb: SONY CD-RW CRX230E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

hdc: Maxtor 6Y060L0, ATA DISK drive

hdd: SONY DVD RW DRU-500A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

hda: attached ide-disk driver

hdb: attached ide-scsi driver

hdc: attached ide-disk driver

hdd: attached ide-scsi driver

scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices

  Vendor: SONY      Model: CD-RW  CRX230E    Rev: QYS1

  Type:  CD-ROM                            ANSI SCSI revision: 02

  Vendor: SONY      Model: DVD RW DRU-500A  Rev: 2.0c

  Type:  CD-ROM                            ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0

so we can determine what type of drives you have, how they're attached, and where they're located.

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When you installed you apparently didn't add the swap partition and /home partition during the setting of the mount points. Otherwise they would be listed in your /etc/fstab.

Is there a way to add them?

I really dont want to restall.

You are going to have to do some monkeying around. Here is a link to help:
http://www.poulpetersen.dk/linux/ukadddsk.htm
Of course you won't have to do the start of it as you have already done the partitioning.
Here is my swap list in /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0

The how to gives how to enter /home in fstab. If swap still doesn't work you may have to mkswap and swapon. man pages for both of them.

there all Ide.
there hooked up as follows
primary master= 40g HD (linux)
primary slave = 8g HD (soon to be windows)
secondary master = DVD-rom
secondary slave = CD-RW

im pretty sure thats how there hooked up. (hardware I can do :) )

Quote:

When you said

quote:btw, no need to worry about hdb1. im gonna install winXp on that

that produced a red flag. When you install XP, it's going to write over your Slackware LiLO, and you'll need to reinstall LiLO. Not a big problem, but it's recommended to always install Windoze first, Linux second.

I could unhook my main (linux) hd when I install windows then pulg it back in after the install. that way it should leave the linux MBR alone. well that work?

output from cdrecord -scanbus:

Code:

Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling

cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.

cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.

cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

I dont know what this means but it doesent look good

output from dmesg | less:

Code:

hda: Maxtor 54098U8, ATA DISK drive

hdb: ST38410A, ATA DISK drive

blk: queue c03a9d80, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)

blk: queue c03a9ebc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)

hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1402, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

hdd: CW038D ATAPI CD-R/RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

hde: no response (status = 0xfe)

hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)

there was a ton more but this seemed the most realivent

Quote:

Originally posted by ringwraith
You are going to have to do some monkeying around. Here is a link to help:
http://www.poulpetersen.dk/linux/ukadddsk.htm
Of course you won't have to do the start of it as you have already done the partitioning.
Here is my swap list in /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0

The how to gives how to enter /home in fstab. If swap still doesn't work you may have to mkswap and swapon. man pages for both of them.

so basicly all I have to do I add the correct lines to my fstab?

Read the link. Right now /home is on your / partition. You have to change its name. Then add the line to your /etc/fstab, put /home on it then move the backed up info to the new /home.

all right, but what about my swap and cd-rw?

I gave you the line to put in /etc/fstab for swap earlier. For the cdrw, Chinaman was helping you there. Here is the line to add to your /etc/lilo.conf
append = 'hdd=ide-scsi'
then add this line to your /etc/fstab
/dev/sr1 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,rw 0 0

Hope that helps

thank you so much
sorry for making you repete yourself, its getting late and ive been working on this all day. Just wanted to make sure.

No problem. Remember be patient. It's all part of the learning process. You will get it if you keep at it.

ok, I got myy swap and /home worked out, now I just need to get my CD-rw working.

i also remembered that I do need to acess hdb. I got so files on there I need