Date: 06 May 2003 19:03:23 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Redmond Militante <r-militante@northwestern.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: second ide hard drive - toast? Message-ID: <44el3bptj8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030503203910.GA26316@darkpossum> References: <20030503203910.GA26316@darkpossum>
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Redmond Militante <r-militante@northwestern.edu> writes: > on my home computer, i was mounting a second ide hdd using this line in my fstab > > /dev/ad1c /mnt/drive2 ufs rw 1 1 > > i tried to boot the machine today, it hung while trying to mount /dev/ad1c. i tried fsck, it couldn't read the drive. only way i could get the machine to boot was to uncomment the above fstab line. > > when i run dmesg, it shows me ad0 but not ad1. i try to run 'fdisk /dev/ad1' or 'fdisk /dev/ad1c' and i get the message 'device not configured' > > did this drive just die on me? any tips on how to recover? If it's not detected at all, it's likely to be a controller or cable failure. Check those things first, since they're less of a problem to solve. [Or, conversely, put the disk in another machine to see if it's okay.]
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