Hi
I've recently installed a Silicon Image ATA 133 card, and a new Seagate 120 gig hard drive (configured as slave, plugged into the primary channel of the ATA card)- it seems to work fine under Windows, but now when starting up Linux (SuSE 9.1), I get a Kernel Panic when doing something like mounting /root or something(/dev/hdb3).
My other hard drives (an 80 gig containing the Linux partitions, and a 60 gig containing the Windows partitions) are connected to the Realtek ATA chip on my motherboard, and they get past the loading stage no probs.
HELP!!! what can I do? Are my videos, multitrack audio and everything else hopelessly lost?!?!
Please help
Dave
Can it be done in Linux?
I have just bought an Ultrabay Hard Disc Adapter for my R51 Thinkpad. The Thinkpad instructions say that all ultrabay devices are hot pluggable.
The second drive is recognised if it's in place when the machine boots but not if I plug it in when Linux is running. It is recognised as hdc which is the same device as the DVD drive although they obviously can't be used at the same time but I'd rather it was hdb. Can I configure 'something' so that it comes up as hdb?
Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
On 9/9/05, Barry Samuels bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
The second drive is recognised if it's in place when the machine boots but not if I plug it in when Linux is running. It is recognised as hdc which is the same device as the DVD drive although they obviously can't be used at the same time but I'd rather it was hdb. Can I configure 'something' so that it comes up as hdb?
It will be called "hdc" because it is the master device on the 2nd IDE channel. CDs and DVDs will be mounted from \dev\hdc while HD partitions will be \dev\hdc1 \devhdc2 etc. Are you sure you want to mess with that?
I don't know about hot-plugging.
Tim.
On 2005.09.09 17:02, Tim Green wrote:
On 9/9/05, Barry Samuels bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
The second drive is recognised if it's in place when the machine boots but not if I plug it in when Linux is running. It is recognised as hdc which is the same device as the DVD drive although they obviously can't be used at the same time but I'd rather it was hdb. Can I configure 'something' so that it comes up as hdb?
It will be called "hdc" because it is the master device on the 2nd IDE channel. CDs and DVDs will be mounted from \dev\hdc while HD partitions will be \dev\hdc1 \devhdc2 etc. Are you sure you want to mess with that?
No I'm not sure that I want to mess with that. :-)) Perhaps I'll leave it as it is.
So - just the hot plugging problem remains. Anyone?
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 16:40 +0000, Barry Samuels wrote:
So - just the hot plugging problem remains. Anyone?
Well I would have thought that as long as the DVD drive was unmounted before you swapped it would be fine.
I am not sure how you detect the hotplug event itself as I think IBM use some proprietary magic to make that happen on the ultrabay (Doesn't Windows detect the swap event when you pop out the release button...I think that's how my R40 works)
So the issue you will have of course is that your fstab won't reflect the drives on the system because no doubt it will have something like- /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 Which isn't going to be much use when trying to mount a hard drive.
It's a challenge...I'll give you that
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