On Thursday 04 March 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:44 AM, David Goodenough > > <david.goodeno...@btconnect.com> wrote: > > I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. > > QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is > > what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports > > that there are only the /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 partitons, no /dev/hda5. > > > > The really odd thing is that qtparted is running on the kernel which > > can not see /dev/hda5. > > > > The disk is question is a 2.5" 160GB drive, and is quite new. The kernel > > log shows no errors. > > > > Any idea what might cause this and how to fix it (preferably without > > repartitioning the disk as backing it all up would take a while and also > > I do not know how I would access the data in /dev/hda5 if I can not see > > it). > > > > David > > What version of Debian is this? What kernel version? Storage controller > type? > > I find it odd that your disks would be named hdx as modern libata > should emulate those drives as scsi. > This is sid, running 2.6.32-2, and the controller is an Intel 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03).
I thought that the libata change was coming in in 2.6.33, but maybe I misread something. The file system was built a little while ago, back in 2.6.26 or earlier days but I can not go back to 2.6.26 as udev would not work. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003041603.15609.david.goodeno...@btconnect.com
