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Title: SME Server and SATA drives
Post by: bas60 on November 17, 2009, 05:36:18 PM

I have a installation of SME Server and motherboard died....

SME is installed on 80Gb IDE drive
BackupPC data is held on a 1Tb SATA

Replaced the M/B - SME Server starts ok (had to Re-Configure using admin for different LAN card)

Everything works just file - EXCEPT the SATA hard disk with BackupPC data is not accesible!!!

Is anything I can do to access data on SATA drive??

PS: I tried IDE drive in 5-6 machines BOOT just fine (in most cases need to run config server using admin)

BUT.... another installation (to test) on SATA drives only - the SME will only boot on the machine it was installed on.  :(


 

Title: Re: SME Server and SATA drives
Post by: piran on November 18, 2009, 01:05:08 AM

The 'missing' drive is probably enumerated differently
on your replacement kit. Look in the dmesg log for it.
Adjust BackupPC stuff accordingly.

Title: Re: SME Server and SATA drives
Post by: bas60 on November 18, 2009, 10:21:58 AM

where do I find it, tried find / -name dmesg.log

also tried find / -name *.log - only found 1 file install.log

NB: Also, having found the file and looking a the content what do I need to change ??

Thanks in advance

Title: Re: SME Server and SATA drives
Post by: Stefano on November 18, 2009, 10:47:18 AM

try

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dmesg | grep sd

or

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dmesg | less

HTH

Title: Re: SME Server and SATA drives
Post by: bas60 on November 18, 2009, 11:08:47 AM

Thanks

Disk has changed from sdb1 to sda1

With fdisk -l /dev/sda - shows me it a single Linux partition 83 (ext3)

Changed fstab to sda1 but does not mount - any ideas?

Title: Re: SME Server and SATA drives
Post by: Stefano on November 18, 2009, 11:21:44 AM

yes..

I suggest you to try manually and to watch /var/log/messages

you should find there the reason of the failure

Title: Re: SME Server and SATA drives
Post by: bas60 on November 18, 2009, 11:50:34 AM

During boot I see a message - special device /dev/sda1 does not exit

I the log file can't see any error - mind you I'm not sure what I'm looking for!
(the above error is NOT listed)
Although from what I can see the Maxtor 1Tb drive on sda1 is listed in the log.

After booting if I type mount -a the sda1 is mounted ok and and I can list files just fine.

Title: Re: SME Server and SATA drives
Post by: Stefano on November 18, 2009, 12:52:12 PM

please post your fstab file

Title: Re: SME Server and SATA drives
Post by: bas60 on November 18, 2009, 01:05:30 PM

#------------------------------------------------------------
# BE CAREFUL WHEN MODIFYING THIS FILE! It is updated automatically
# by the SME server software. A few entries are updated during
# the template processing of the file and white space is removed,
# but otherwise changes to the file are preserved.
# For more information, see http://www.e-smith.org/custom/ and
# the template fragments in /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/fstab/.
#
# copyright (C) 2002 Mitel Networks Corporation
#------------------------------------------------------------
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/main/root          /                       ext3    usrquota,grpquota        1 1
/dev/md1                /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/main/swap          swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/sda1               /var/lib/BackupPC       ext3    noatime 0 0
/dev/hdd                /media/cdrecorder       auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0