On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:40:56PM -0600, Carl Zeilon wrote:
> One more clue - I have discovered that if I eject the disk (after starting
> the machine with a disk in & successfully mounting it) I can not mount it
> again. I get mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist
> Here is "mount" with or without disk in at startup:
just a random stab in the dark: install strace and do a
strace mount /dev/hdb4 /mnt/whatever > out1
remove the floppy and do it again
strace mount /dev/hdb4 /mnt/whatever > out2
and do a diff and see what is going on.
And b) try
mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun3 /mnt/whatever and see what happens.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
might need to poke around a bit, to see if that really exists
florin
> I don't see any error messages in "dmesg", here is the part that pertains to
> the drives. As you can see, it's layed out just as I described it above:
>
> hda:Pioneer CD-ROM ATAPI Model DR-744 0102, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hde: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
> hdf: Maxtor 53073H6, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> ide2 at 0x1420-0x1427,0x1416 on irq 10
> hde: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(100)
> hdf: 60030432 sectors (30736 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=59554/16/63, UDMA(100)
> hda: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> ide-floppy driver 0.97
> hdb: No disk in drive
> hdb: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> Partition check:
> /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [5005/255/63] p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8
> p9 p
> 10 >
> /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0: [PTBL] [3736/255/63] p1 p2 < p5 p6 >
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> ide-floppy driver 0.97
>
>
> If I run "dmesg" with a disk in drive the line that reads: "hdb: No disk in
> drive" changes to: "hdb: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size"
>
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