Mailing List Archive: Big Problem - fdisk, Unable to open drive!?

Big Problem - fdisk, Unable to open drive!?

Oct 19, 2004, 2:55 AM

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Hello all.

I think I have a big problem here. During a recent rebuild of my
system, I rebooted when I was all done only to be presented with a huge
list of mount errors. I rebooted into Knoppix (where I install from)
and tried to run fdisk - 'fdisk /dev/hde' - and keep getting a message
that fdisk can not open the drive!
I ran a low level format on the drive, Windows installs fine, but fdisk
still can't open the drive!
What's up with this!? I'm not going to have to go buy a new hard drive
just to get Gentoo back up and running, am I?

Thanks for any help.

Nick

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Re: Big Problem - fdisk, Unable to open drive!? [ In reply to ]

hilse at web

Oct 19, 2004, 7:34 AM

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Hello,

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:55:53 +0000
Nicholas Pappas <npappas@rightstep.org> wrote:

> I think I have a big problem here. During a recent rebuild of
> my
> system, I rebooted when I was all done only to be presented with a
> huge list of mount errors. I rebooted into Knoppix (where I install
> from) and tried to run fdisk - 'fdisk /dev/hde' - and keep getting a
> message that fdisk can not open the drive!

It would be actually very useful to see the actual error message.
/dev/hde sounds like you're using some kind of external IDE controller?
Are there special modules needed for that? What does

$ dmesg|grep -C 3 "ide"

say?

Hans-Werner

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Re: Big Problem - fdisk, Unable to open drive!? [ In reply to ]

npappas at rightstep

Oct 19, 2004, 2:18 PM

Post #3 of 3 (342 views)

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Thanks for the response Hans!
The drive is actually a SATA drive. Knoppix just happens to pick up as
hde.
I did figure out the problem though. I'm back up and running with a
nice clean install of Gentoo. :)

Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:55:53 +0000
> Nicholas Pappas <npappas@rightstep.org> wrote:
>
>
>> I think I have a big problem here. During a recent rebuild of
>> my
>>system, I rebooted when I was all done only to be presented with a
>>huge list of mount errors. I rebooted into Knoppix (where I install
>>from) and tried to run fdisk - 'fdisk /dev/hde' - and keep getting a
>>message that fdisk can not open the drive!
>
>
> It would be actually very useful to see the actual error message.
> /dev/hde sounds like you're using some kind of external IDE controller?
> Are there special modules needed for that? What does
>
> $ dmesg|grep -C 3 "ide"
>
> say?
>
> Hans-Werner
>
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>
>

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