cant see HD

merlin371 · 11-24-2009, 07:29 AM

Right so I have 4 HDs on my computer 2x120gb 1x250gb and 1x500gb now i tried installing linux on a partition on the 250gb but the installer wouldnt see the HD, and it wouldnt see the 120gb HDs either, so i installed it on the 500gb.

Now i'm trying to mount the HDs but is not working this is the message i get

Quote:

ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sdd1': No such file or directory

ntfs-3g 2009.4.4 external FUSE 27 - Third Generation NTFS Driver

Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Yura Pakhuchiy
Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Szabolcs Szakacsits
Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Jean-Pierre Andre
Copyright (C) 2009 Erik Larsson

Usage: ntfs-3g [-o option[,...]] <device|image_file> <mount_point>

Options: ro (read-only mount), remove_hiberfile, uid=, gid=,
umask=, fmask=, dmask=, streams_interface=, syncio.
Please see the details in the manual (type: man ntfs-3g).

Example: ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

Ntfs-3g news, support and information: http://ntfs-3g.org

I can mount the NTFS partitions from the 500gb no problem but the other ones it wont mount.

fdisk -l shows this

Quote:

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3d2db374

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14592 117210208+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1ce30765

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 25176 202225196 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 * 30401 60802 244191232 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb3 25177 30400 41961780 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 25177 30181 40202631 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 30182 30400 1759086 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdc: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e3872

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 7649 61438976 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc2 7650 15298 61440000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc3 15299 30515 122230552+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdd: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x62e94571

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 14594 117218304 7 HPFS/NTFS

it shows the other hds as raids for whatever reasons, so i removed dmraid, but it didnt change anything, I really dont know what to do, and the same problem happened with fedora 12.

mostlyharmless · 11-24-2009, 11:35 AM

When do you get the ntfs-3g message? At boot time, or after you issue

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdd1 /mnt/windows

It's very odd that fdisk would show the device and partition but for mount not to find the device.

merlin371 · 11-28-2009, 08:11 PM

ok this just got a bit weirder, I just installed ubuntu 9.04 I had 9.10 before. And in 9.04 I can see the HDs no problem, they're all there during install while running and everything, not a problem, same goes for other distros, so I'm guessing something got changed on the kernel that stopped the HDs from working.