Charles Galpin wrote:
> I have a 6.1 machine that I believe the main ide disk has failed on. At
> the very least it has some serious file corruption.
>
> I booted off a 6.2 boot disk, with the 6.2 cd in it, and used the rescue
> option. I can see the drives being identified in the boot messages.
>
> The cd is mounted automatically.
>
> My problem is that doing fdisk -l returns nothing. Like it doesn't see the
> disks. I ran mount, and saw that it would created temp device nodes (since
> they don't exist) and tried to mount hda1, hda2, hda3 etc, but I get no
> error messages and nothing gets mounted.
>
> How can I mount these disks?
>
> thanks
> charles
Charles-
Is there anything wierd in dmesg? It does sound like something is broken.
what about looking around in proc?
I have a bunch of stuff in proc/ide/ide0/hda.
[root@bretdell_linux hda]# pwd
/proc/ide/ide0/hda
[root@bretdell_linux hda]# ls -al
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 12 21:28 .
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 12 21:28 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 21:30 cache
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 21:30 capacity
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 21:30 driver
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 21:30 geometry
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 21:30 identify
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 21:30 media
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 21:30 model
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 21:30 settings
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 21:30 smart_thresholds
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 21:30 smart_values
[root@bretdell_linux hda]#
hth
Bret
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