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RE: DevFS problem adding a hard drive

To: "'Devin Brown'" <dbrown@xxxxx>, devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: DevFS problem adding a hard drive
From: Borzenkov Andrey <Andrey.Borzenkov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:34:14 +0400
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> 
> Trying to add a second hard drive to a Mandrake 9.1 system running DevFS.
> OS detects drive on bootup and shows it in device manager but I can't
> access
> the drive, even with fdisk.  The device manager shows the drive as being
> at
> /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc.  The directory
> /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0 exists but is empty. 

If it is empty, it cannot be accessed.

Any error messages in dmesg from devfs? 


 I boot Debian
> (without DevFS) on this same machine and it sees the new drive no problem.
> I can mount it and access it fully.  I've tried this on three different
> Mandrake 9.1 machines with three different hard drives and have gotten the
> same results in all cases.  I've already discussed this on the Mandrake
> forums and the consenses it that it's a DevFS issue.  Has anyone seen this
> before?  Is there a way around it?
> 
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Devin Brown
> Anthony Macauley Associates
> dbrown@xxxxx



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