From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 9:20: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snoopy.brwn.org (intgw1.brwn.org [196.28.127.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F7637B7B5 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willem@brwn.org) Received: by snoopy.brwn.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7F3681D9E; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:19:48 +0200 (SAST) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:19:47 +0200 From: Willem Brown To: Martin Svensson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Harddrive mount problems! Message-ID: <20000811181947.G10255@snoopy.brwn.org> References: <001001c003a6$bdc172c0$0a00a8c0@telia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <001001c003a6$bdc172c0$0a00a8c0@telia.com>; from skydiver@telia.com on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 05:13:44PM +0200 X-Public-Key: http://willem.brwn.org/pubkey.txt X-Chat-Server: http://chat.brwn.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Is the drive not still jumpered to be a master or single drive? I would imagine that you went into the BIOs and did an detect hard drives. You could also maybe try to disable the secondary ide controller and see if that makes a difference. On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 05:13:44PM +0200, Martin Svensson wrote: > Hello! > > I moved my harddrive från being secondary master to primary slave on the motherboard. Both the harddrives is using LBA mode in BIOS (award). > > No i am not sure what my harddrive is called. This is what my previous /etc/fstab looked like. But the /home directory was not commented out, i did this now because it doesn't work when i boot. I get this error message when i boot. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > /dev/ad0s1a: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS > /dev/ad0s1a: Clean, blah blah.. > > ad2: READ command timeout - resetting > ata1: resetting done. > > ata-master: WARNING: WAIT-READY active=ATA_ACTIVE_ATA > ad2: trying fallback to PIO mode > ata1: resetting devices... done. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > MY /etc/fstab > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# > /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > #/dev/ad1s1e /home ufs rw 2 2 It won't mount it if this is commented, but I guess you know that. It might also not check it. > /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2 > #/dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > When i do 'fdisk /dev/ad1' (which i believe to be my secondary slave) i get this: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > mars# fdisk /dev/ad1 > ******* Working on device /dev/ad1 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=1108 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=1108 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 17799957 (8691 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 > The data for partition 2 is: > > The data for partition 3 is: > > The data for partition 4 is: > > mars# > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Like i said before, in BIOS my harddrives are in LBA mode, i autodetected then in bios. Please help me get back my /home partition, I got some useful information there. If all else fails you could always change it back to being a secondary master like before. Your data should still be there. > > > Thankyou in advance > > Martin Best Regards Willem Brown -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist. -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message