From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 16:03:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F18C37B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 16:03:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6BD43FB1 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 16:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <20030506230325003005l7dke>; Tue, 6 May 2003 23:03:25 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h46N3OTU006829; Tue, 6 May 2003 19:03:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h46N3NHS006826; Tue, 6 May 2003 19:03:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: Redmond Militante References: <20030503203910.GA26316@darkpossum> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 06 May 2003 19:03:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030503203910.GA26316@darkpossum> Message-ID: <44el3bptj8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: second ide hard drive - toast? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 23:03:28 -0000 Redmond Militante writes: > on my home computer, i was mounting a second ide hdd using this line in my fstab > > /dev/ad1c /mnt/drive2 ufs rw 1 1 > > i tried to boot the machine today, it hung while trying to mount /dev/ad1c. i tried fsck, it couldn't read the drive. only way i could get the machine to boot was to uncomment the above fstab line. > > when i run dmesg, it shows me ad0 but not ad1. i try to run 'fdisk /dev/ad1' or 'fdisk /dev/ad1c' and i get the message 'device not configured' > > did this drive just die on me? any tips on how to recover? If it's not detected at all, it's likely to be a controller or cable failure. Check those things first, since they're less of a problem to solve. [Or, conversely, put the disk in another machine to see if it's okay.]