Guest nedjo Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 I installed Mandrake 9.2 in a system with 2 IDE identical hard disks. hdda is a primary, hddb is a secondary master. Mandrake is on hdda. I want to share hddb through Samba. I made one partition hddb1 (ext3) and set mounting point to /home/data. When I mount hddb1 I have the whole / copied. If I go to /home/data/bin I see all files as in the /bin. I can not delete files or directories. Is Mandrake confused with two identical drives, or I am doing something wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 How have you set your mount point? Perhaps you could post your /etc/fstab? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nedjo Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 I did everything with DiskDrake; partitioning and mounting. My fstab has this entry for hddb1: /dev/hdb1 /home/data ext3 defaults 1 2 It looks OK to me. Other day I came across some forum where they mentioned simmilar problem, that Mandrake is confused when two identical hdd are installed in the system. As it goes, that was before I faced the same problem. Spent whole day on Google trying to find that message and forum, but no luck. I removed partition and try with smaller partition on the same hdd and change mounting point to other directory, but result was the same. Hdd are WD 400JB - 40GB each. Any ideas??? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Make sure that both drives are using the right Master-Slave Combination, that is one as master and one as slave. Most drives are shipped with the jumper set into Cable select configuration and Linux can get confused with that combination. Anyway. I am using two identical drives in my desktop (Maxtor 30 gb drive) due to an ordering mistake. I had no problem whatsoever using Mandrake 9.1, PclinuxOS and Mandrake 9.2.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Would be helpful to see your complete fstab. And to continue with some basics here... Are these two harddrives on same IDE cable ? The master on the end and the slave connected in the middle ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nedjo Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Thanks DragonMaqe. The moment I read your message, I remembered that I had left hdd jumpers to cable select. It is OK now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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