Topic: new hard drive woes

[hobbes487]

Hello all.

I just installed SME and the setup was great and configuration is nearly effortless.  I am now trying to add additional hard drives to the server.  I am not a linux expert at all so bare with me.

I am trying to follow the guide for installing a new drive here: http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/extra%20hard%20disk

The very first direction is this:

[root@hogwarts /]# telinit 1

When I issues this command, the server just seems to lock up.  I am using ssh to do this remotely and when i type that command, i lose my connection to the server and i cant get it back without killing the power to the server and restarting it.

Anyone have any ideas why this is happening?

[duncan]

Just ignore it and start at step 2.

[CharlieBrady]

The very first direction is this:

[root@hogwarts /]# telinit 1

When I issues this command, the server just seems to lock up.  I am using ssh to do this remotely and when i type that command, i lose my connection to the server and i cant get it back without killing the power to the server and restarting it.

Anyone have any ideas why this is happening?

"telinit 1" puts the system in single user mode, with no "services" running. That means no network services, including ssh.

You'll need to be physically present and logged in on the console to do what you are trying to do.

[hobbes487]

Thanks for the replies guys.  I tried just skipping step one and starting with step two.  No matter what I try I get "Undable to open /dev/hdb".  The hard drive is attatched to hdb.  Just to be sure i tried hda, hdb, hdc and hdd.  All of them yeild the same error message.  What could i be doing wrong?

[duncan]

Does the bios actually see the drive.

What do you get if you do

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dmesg | grep hd

[hobbes487]

This is what I get when I type 'dmesg':

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[root@hedgewig root]# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.20-18.7 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113)) #1 Thu May 29 08:32:50 EDT 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e7400 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ef0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000007ef0000 - 0000000007effc00 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000007effc00 - 0000000007f00000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000007f00000 - 0000000008000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
126MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 32496
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28400 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=SMEServer-up ro root=303 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.7
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1002.296 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1998.84 BogoMIPS
Memory: 124044k/129984k available (1175k kernel code, 4540k reserved, 986k data, 120k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd99e, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2410] at 00:1f.0
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:01.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta3-.2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
ICH: chipset revision 2
ICH: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x10a0-0x10a7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x10a8-0x10af, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: ST340823A, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c0378440, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-612B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=5169/240/63, UDMA(66)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 120k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 212643
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3): 1 orphan inode deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
Adding Swap: 264592k swap-space (priority -1)
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 08:52:36 May 29 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1080, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
hdc: DMA disabled
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Enabling device 01:08.0 (0100 -> 0103)
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:01.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xc88a4000, 00:10:b5:d4:8b:7c, IRQ 9
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.
NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0


The hard drive should be at hdb.  It is brand new and hasnt been formated or partitioned yet.

[MSmith]

Back to basics:  jumpers, namely.  Master/slave or cable select?  Needs to be consistent on each cable.  If it's consistent, try the other way, i.e. if it's master/slave, try CS.

And since you'll probably never need your DVD-ROM, try disconnecting that and put the new hard drive as master on the secondary IDE channel (hdc).