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" > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011111/509aa07a/attachment.pgp