opensuse 10.3 does not recognize second hard drive

[barryemp]

I have 3 hard drives on my machine. The SATA has windows xp and Suse 10.3 on it, having just performed an upgrade from Suse 10.2. The 1st IDE has FAT32 and EXT2 partitions and the 2nd IDE has a FAT16, an NTFS and an EXT2 partition on it.

Windows can read the NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16 partitions on all the drives. Konqueror on Suse 10.3 can read all the SATA drive partitions, but neither of the IDE drives at all. However, all of the partitions on all of the drives had been listed correctly during the upgrade process.

Any ideas?

[Jonathan183]

I have 3 hard drives on my machine. The SATA has windows xp and Suse 10.3 on it, having just performed an upgrade from Suse 10.2. The 1st IDE has FAT32 and EXT2 partitions and the 2nd IDE has a FAT16, an NTFS and an EXT2 partition on it.

Windows can read the NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16 partitions on all the drives. Konqueror on Suse 10.3 can read all the SATA drive partitions, but neither of the IDE drives at all. However, all of the partitions on all of the drives had been listed correctly during the upgrade process.

Any ideas?

I suggest you run ...
fdisk -l
as root and post the output
Also post the contents of /etc/fstab

[gogalthorp]

Are they mounted??

[devils casper]

I have 3 hard drives on my machine. The SATA has windows xp and Suse 10.3 on it, having just performed an upgrade from Suse 10.2. The 1st IDE has FAT32 and EXT2 partitions and the 2nd IDE has a FAT16, an NTFS and an EXT2 partition on it.

Windows can read the NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16 partitions on all the drives. Konqueror on Suse 10.3 can read all the SATA drive partitions, but neither of the IDE drives at all. However, all of the partitions on all of the drives had been listed correctly during the upgrade process.

Any ideas?

Hi and Welcome !

Open Terminal and execute this

su -
fdisk -l
df -h

Post output here.

[barryemp]

Hi all. Thank you for your responses. I suppose they are not mounted. I don't know why since they are fixed discs, but here is the info you requested - fdisk, df, and fstab:-


Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1e909401

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 261 2096451 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 262 516 2048287+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda3 517 4865 34933342+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 26.2 GB, 26279770112 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3195 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x487449b6

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1920 15422368+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 1921 3195 10241437+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1921 1943 184716 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 1945 3195 10048626 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc3f8c3f8

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 16318 131074303+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc2 16319 30401 113121697+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdc5 16319 16580 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc6 16581 19191 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sdc7 19192 30401 90044293+ 83 Linux

linux:~ # df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc6 20G 3.6G 16G 19% /
udev 487M 136K 486M 1% /dev
/dev/sdc7 85G 289M 80G 1% /home
/dev/sdc1 126G 60G 66G 48% /windows/C

Contents of etc/fstab:

/dev/sdc6 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sdc7 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sdc1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdc5 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

[Jonathan183]

Hi all. Thank you for your responses. I suppose they are not mounted. I don't know why since they are fixed discs, but here is the info you requested - fdisk, df, and fstab:-


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 261 2096451 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 262 516 2048287+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda3 517 4865 34933342+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1920 15422368+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 1921 3195 10241437+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1921 1943 184716 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 1945 3195 10048626 83 Linux

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 16318 131074303+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc2 16319 30401 113121697+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdc5 16319 16580 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc6 16581 19191 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sdc7 19192 30401 90044293+ 83 Linux

linux:~ # df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc6 20G 3.6G 16G 19% /
udev 487M 136K 486M 1% /dev
/dev/sdc7 85G 289M 80G 1% /home
/dev/sdc1 126G 60G 66G 48% /windows/C

Contents of etc/fstab:

/dev/sdc6 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sdc7 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sdc1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdc5 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

OK as you said in your original post you have 3 hard disks on the system:-

sda with
linux (sda1) / fat16(sda2) / ntfs(sda3) partitions

sdb with
fat32 (sdb1) and an extended partition (sdb2) with a swap (sdb5) and linux (sdb6) partitions

sdc with
ntfs (sdc1) and an extended partition (sdc2) with swap (sdc5) / linux (sdc6) / linux (sdc7) partitions

You already have partitions on sdc mounted
sdc1 is mounted read only as /windows/C
sdc5 is the swap
sdc6 looks to be the root partition
sdc7 is mounted as /home

I think the easiest way to sort this is to go into YAST -> system -> partitioner and set mount points for your other disk. I suggest initially you mount the windows partitions read only and check what is on them. You could mount
sda2 at mount point /windows/D (FAT16)
sda3 at mount point /windows/E (NTFS)
sdb1 at mount point /windows/F (FAT32)

I expected the ntfs-3g driver to be used for the ntfs mount (but this is not the case at the moment). If you need read/write access to the ntfs partitions you need to make sure the system uses ntfs-3g for this

Post back if you need more detail of partitioner - I'm assuming you know how to use it since you upgraded from SUSE 10.2, but all you should need to do is select each partition, select edit and set the mount point. (for the NTFS partitions go into fstab options and double check they will be mounted read only to start with).

[nbaptista]

I have the same problem,Linux doesn´t recognize my Seagate HD,but when I type su - it appears "password" and I can´t find wich it is!I tryed to type my administrador password,but the terminal doesn´t accept it .
When I type fdisk -l it appears command unknown
What shall I do?
BTW,when I did the installation,it said that coul omnly read the seagate HD,but couldn´t formated it,I think!

[Jonathan183]

I have the same problem,Linux doesn´t recognize my Seagate HD,but when I type su - it appears "password" and I can´t find wich it is!I tryed to type my administrador password,but the terminal doesn´t accept it .
When I type fdisk -l it appears command unknown
What shall I do?
BTW,when I did the installation,it said that coul omnly read the seagate HD,but couldn´t formated it,I think!

You need to sort the root access out first then post fdisk -l information once you have root access. If you post the contents of fstab at the same time we can see what partitions you have and what is already mounted. There are some info on root access ... http://www.linuxforums.org/Security/..._password.html

[willb]

In regards to SUSe 10.3 and hard drives.

Can someone explain to me why all hard drives whether they be IDE or SCUSI are called sda1, sdb1 and so forth? It does get confusing if you have a stack of Scusi drives. Is it possible to ensure SUSE 10.3 calls an IDE drive hda1, etc?

Thanks

[gogalthorp]

You could use symbolic links. If you look into your /etc/fstab file in 10.3 you will see all the mounts are based on long names of the drives which are s-linked to the appropriate hd or sd files.

I believe that hd is being discontinued in favor of sd but I'm not sure about that.