[vox-tech] Plextor PX-712A not working...

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Thu 13 Jan 05, 11:40 AM, Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at sbcglobal.net> said:
> Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> >On Thu 13 Jan 05, 11:26 AM, Dylan Beaudette <dylan at iici.no-ip.org> said:
> >
> >>On Thursday 13 January 2005 11:16 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> >>
> >>>Can you post the output of:
> >>>
> >>>  mount
> >>>
> >>>and:
> >>>
> >>>  hdparm /dev/hda
> >>>  hdparm /dev/hdb
> >>>  hdparm /dev/hdc
> >>>  hdparm /dev/hdd
> >>>  hdparm /dev/hde
> >>>  hdparm /dev/hdf
> >>>  hdparm /dev/hdg
> >>>
> >>>If any of the output says "no device" or something to that effect, don't
> >>>bother posting it.  IIRC, you have to run hdparm as root, even when you
> >>>just want to query the hardware.
> >>
> >>interesting....
> >>
> >>all devices return a "No such device or address" error from hdparm. mount 
> >>gives the same type of error.
> >
> >
> >That's hinky!
> >
> >Time to start shooting with buckshot.  Maybe we'll hit something.
> >
> >Can you tell me a little bit about your kernel?
> >Is it a distro supplied kernel?
> >Did you compile it yourself?
> >Do you have more than one kernel on this machine?
> >Where did THEY come from?
> >What mobo do you have?
> >Can you boot Knoppix and use your CD drive?
> >Can you boot Knoppix and try the test with mount/hdparm?
> >If Knoppix works, grab a copy of `lsmod`.
> >Can you cut and paste what "mount" responds with so I can see verbatim?
> >Please post /etc/fstab.
> >
> >Pete
> >
> 
> If I may interject, it seems to me like he did not build, or does not 
> load, the correct kernel part for his ide driver.  For most of us on 
> inexpensive, IDE hardware only, we wouldn't even be able to boot (been 
> there, done that). He can still boot, though, because his harddrive is 
> SCSI.  I could be wrong, though.
> 
> Jonathan

Yeah, I thought of that, but what bothers me is whether you use SCSI or IDE,
the mount command should STILL tell you what partitions are mounted.  Even a
user of all-SCSI systems should still be able to see mounted partitions
using "mount".  But it's certainly worth asking.

Dylan, are all your hard drives SCSI?

That would be hilarious -- a system that's all SCSI except for an IDE
Plextor drive.    :)

Pete

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