FC7 Hard Drive Problems

[zach297]

Hello All,
I recently updated my FC6 machine to FC7 without a hitch. I have two hard drives. The master is the Fedora drive and the windows drive is the slave. During installation I noticed that it would not let me install fedora to my windows hard drive. Since i didn't want to do it anyway I ignored it. Sometimes I need to access my windows hard drive while using fedora. I could do this easily under FC6. Under FC7 it does not even detect a second hard drive. I know it is still connected because I can still boot from it. I am thinking that this may be related to the switch between the naming scheme for hard drives. My hard drive used to be called hda and hdb but now my first one is called sda. From what I understand sda means it is a SATA drive. Since SATA drives do not have masters or slaves I am thinking that fedora simply cant use slave drives. When I boot Fedora it gives me this error message about how ata1 has timed out. I don't know what it means but I would appreciate it if someone could help me to get my hard drive to work again under fedora.
Thanks,
zach297

[MikeTbob]

Hiya zach297
post the output of these commands:

fdisk -l

less /etc/fstab

[zach297]

Here is the output for fdisk:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14        9729    78043770   8e  Linux LVM

Here is the output of less:

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

I tried opening my windows hard drive with Knoppix and it detected it and read from it perfectly. I still can not open it in fedora.
Thanks,
Zach

[MikeTbob]

Check this link, posted by another forum member in a different post related to SATA drives.
Serial ATA (SATA) on Linux

[zach297]

Thanks for the link MikeTbob but I can install fedora fine. Its accesing my windows hard drive while under fedora thats the problem. None of my drives are SATA. Another interesting thing to note is that when I unplug my windows drive GRUB loads really fast but when I put it back in it takes much longer to load.
Thanks,
zach297

[MikeTbob]

Thanks for the link MikeTbob but I can install fedora fine. Its accesing my windows hard drive while under fedora thats the problem. None of my drives are SATA. Another interesting thing to note is that when I unplug my windows drive GRUB loads really fast but when I put it back in it takes much longer to load.
Thanks,
zach297

Well, it's strange that fdisk will not access it either. That is part of the reason I thought it was a SATA drive. Sorry about that.
Maybe one of the other forum members can help you here, I have an appointment and probably won't be back for a few hours.

[devils casper]

Another interesting thing to note is that when I unplug my windows drive GRUB loads really fast but when I put it back in it takes much longer to load.

something wrong with Windows disk or Cables. does Windows boot up correctly?
try new cable.

[zach297]

Windows boots perfectly. I am using it to type this right now. I can also access my windows drive with my Knoppix Live CD. I could access the hard drive easily with FC6. I don't know what changed when I updated to FC7.
Thanks,
zach297