Topic: simple thing, adding another drive .. can't do

[petit_quebec]

Hi,

Simple thing, simple question .. how do you add a hard disk to a SME 7.2 server ?

The HowTo, "http://wiki.contribs.org/AddExtraHardDisk", did not work for me.

My setup is simple, a running SME server, booting from a IDE drive (no raid install) and I am trying to add a SATA (simple JBOD setup) drive to it.
What ever I do, the new drive seem to be busy, used by another process, i can not mount it.

I find this very odd, SME is so easy to setup, I had no problems at all doing things that are so complicated with other distributions .. except for adding drives.

cheers,

[matsk]

And you read that the instruction was for PATA and NOT SATA ?

And maybe you could elaborate what didn't work, error messages, messages in logfile ...

[cactus]

And you read that the instruction was for PATA and NOT SATA ?

And maybe you could elaborate what didn't work, error messages, messages in logfile ...

This will help you for 99.9% of your problems:
echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc
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"Nemo saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit"

Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui... for the none-Latin reading people: Beware what you say, when, and to whom

So please try to be friendly in the forums and try to make sure the tone of your message does not carry sarcasm and such. We do not want to scare of users, or do we?

[matsk]

Cactus, what do you mean ?

Please don't read between the lines, just read the message...  No crude or sarcasm I just asked for more facts to help him out in his situation!

[petit_quebec]

from the boot logs ..
Sep  6 21:13:33 sme72 fsck: /dev/sda: clean, 11/48840704 files, 1558275/97677846 blocks
Sep  6 21:13:33 sme72 rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded
Sep  6 21:13:33 sme72 mount: mount: /dev/sda already mounted or /home2 busy

there are no other entries about "sda" or "'home2" in my logs

I was hoping there was a easy answer, since everything was so amazingly easy so far.
e-smith, make me think of my old NextStation, it took me a while to be comfortable with NetInfo .. I was so happy when I discover Linux, "vi" and "/etc files". I know nothing about sme, but I am very impress .. I want to learn more and at this point I need help. 

To my knowledge, PATA, SATA and SCSI device can all be deal in the same way .. that's one of the nice thing with unix .. the "/dev"
Other than the automount and software raid process, I have never encounter any other process that can stop me from mounting partitions.

if this can also help, the content of "proc/mdstat" is ..
"Personalities :"
"unused devices : <none>"

hmm .. there is an "mdadm" process running and I did not ask for any RAID support at the installation .. I will see if killing it helps.

thanks, i am not at all offended, "au contraire, je suis très content"

[cactus]

I was hoping there was a easy answer, since everything was so amazingly easy so far.
e-smith, make me think of my old NextStation, it took me a while to be comfortable with NetInfo .. I was so happy when I discover Linux, "vi" and "/etc files". I know nothing about sme, but I am very impress .. I want to learn more and at this point I need help. 

Did you look at the talk page associated with the wiki page? I seem to remember SME Server can automatically assign the drive to the LVM, which saves you all the hassle of adding drives manually, one of the developers made a remark about that there I believe.