nuno69 Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Ive got mandrake 10.1 for a few days and two HD's my second one i cant access to it can someone help me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Welcome aboard. :) Are you trying to access the drive as root or normal user? Did you mount the drive already? If not, trie mounting the drive from the terminal as root user. mount -t <filesystemtype> dev/hd(XYZ) /mnt Oh.. and what kind of filesystem is used on the drive? NTFS, VFAT, ext2, ReiserFS,...? If you are not familiar with all this stuff, please give us some information about your general Linux experience so we can help in an easy and efficient manner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Open a console and run: $ su <enter root password> # fdisk -l and post the output. That should list all partitions/drives that your system recognizes whether currently mounted or not. Also post this file: /etc/fstab Fstab is a text configuration file that controls the automounting of partitions at boot. Finally, post your motherboard/chipset or the chipset of your sata controller. Most of the common ones are well supported in the 10.1 kernel but some where not. I assume you are only having trouble with your sata drive and you have another ide hard drive that you installed mdk10.1 on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Which mainboard? 10.1 support for SATA controllers was limited- only very ordinary stuff like Intel piix ans such were in. You will surely have better luck with 2005LE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuno69 Posted September 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Is it posible to open the hard drive with out formating i got some stuff in there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuno69 Posted September 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 ive instaled the linux on IDE hard drive but i had windows before and that SATA was my second Hard Drive on windows with all the music a photos now ive instald the linux on IDE and ive plug the SATA as a second hard drive to open the photos and music i dont whant to lose it is it possible thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Unless you format the drive as root user, there will be no loss of data. But maybe you should (just in case you do something "stupid") backup your most important data on some CDs/DVDs. And please add the information we asked for. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Ive got mandrake 10.1 for a few days and two HD's my second one i cant access to it can someone help me <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Early in boot get into your BIOS and make sure that the BIOS sees that second drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuno69 Posted September 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 how can i format the drive as root whitout losing data im runing this on a Ideq amd prossecer thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 May I ask what makes you think you have to format the drive that has your data on it ???. Getting the drive recognised and accessable has NOTHING to do with its format or it being formatted. Please post the info requested by the other posters. 10.1 was primitive with its support for SATA so you would be well advised to follow the suggestion made to upgrade to 10.2 (Mandriva2005-LE). You could also try turning on Harddrake in System in MCC if it is not already activated and do a reboot and see if harddrake detects the drive Ok. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuno69 Posted September 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 what nfo do you whant please tell me thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 See my original post. I need the output of fdisk -l and your /etc/fstab file. If your not sure how to copy and paste that stuff, post back. That will tell us whether the drive is being detected by your system. Also, did you add your sata drive to your system after you installed mdk 10.1? If the sata drive was there during the install and was not picked up, you will probably have to install LE2005 for the sata drive to be detected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuno69 Posted September 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 764 6136798+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 765 9964 73899000 5 Extended /dev/hda5 765 904 1124518+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 905 9964 72774418+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 14596 117242338+ 42 SFS And now??? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Your drive is being detected. It's the 120GB drive and has the device file in linux of /dev/sda. It has one primary partition. You didn't post your /ect/fstab but I would guess there is no entry for /dev/sda1 which is the partition on the drive you are trying to access. The only thing that troubles me is the filesystem on the drive which is designated "SFS". For an NTFS formatted partition, the designation would normally be "HPFS/NTFS". It's probably NTFS if it was on windows. Next step is to try and mount the partition in a console. Run this: $ su <enter root password> # mkdir /mnt/sata # mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/sata Here, we created a directory, /mnt/sata, through which you will access the partition; this is called a mount point. If the above mount command did not give you an error, you can now access the sata drive through /mnt/sata. Just open up konqueror and navigate to /mnt/sata; you should see the entire contents of the drive. CAUTION: linux support for NTFS is read only. Do not attempt to write to the drive or to delete any files on the drive. Doing so can result in filesystem corruption and data loss. You can, however, safely copy anything on the sata drive to your linux drive. You can also back up nthe sata drives files to CD-R if you have a CD burner. Post back your results. If you can successfully mount the drive, we can edit /etc/fstab to automount the drive on boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuno69 Posted September 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 (edited) Could not change the current folder to file:///mnt/sata: Error opening directory '/mnt/sata': Permission denied This is the message ive received when i tried to open the SATA another problem is when i have my SATA conected to de pc and i try to open HOME it doesnt open I think i only can acess as a root Thanks Edited September 27, 2005 by nuno69 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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