Re: 2nd drive not seen after reinstall

In article <6587d$46117a21$cf9b1316$2113@xxxxxxxxxx>,
godzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx says...
A few days back, my SUSE 10.2 machine locked up and would not allow me to
log in for reasons yet unknown. I have two physical 320 MB hard drives.
One was used with one of the partitions for my root and another
partition for my home directories. The second physical drive (sdb) was
being used only to back up data periodically. All was fine until I was
locked out.

I attempted to do a repair, using the installation DVD, and it did not
work.I was still locked out. Then, I tried doing an update, which was also
of no avail. Finally in frustration I did a complete re-install - against
my better judgment. The system is now working normally, EXCEPT that my
second physical drive is not recognized at all. A number of data files
which have been copied there are needed to restore everything as being up
to date.

Should I attempt to edit the /etc/fstab file manually? If so, I am not
certain about some of the parameters I should enter like "mount point" and
whether that disk was formatted as "ext3" or "ext2" or "reiser."

Any experienced advice in this area would be very welcome.

Thanks,

Godzilla


First thing I'd do is download the hard drive diagnostics from the
manufacturer of your drive and verify that the drive is still good. It
may have failed and was your problem to begin with.

Bill
--
Gmail and Google Groups. This century's answer to AOL and WebTV.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: HDD Compatibility
    ... and new larger drives appear in the ... BIOS Upgrades ... available expansion slot and then connecting your hard drives to it. ... than having to connect them to the controller card itself. ...
    (alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt)
  • Re: Partition size
    ... keep empty space available and don't place any backup partitions next ... My hard drives now have empty space next to any partition that may need to expand. ... Since I have multiple backup partitions throughout the 3 hard drives, ... boot time before the defrag and after the defrag. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Partition size
    ... data partitions can be enlarged at any time as I ... throughout the 3 hard drives, ... important anyway since hard drives comes with buffers for years. ... I think defragging is mainly for those who like things organized. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Multiple Data Files on the Same Drive
    ... Several of the DBs have multiple Data files all located on the same hard ... My understanding was that multiple Data files only helped if the files were ... located on different hard drives. ...
    (microsoft.public.sqlserver.setup)
  • Re: Partition size
    ... data partitions can be enlarged at any time as I ... throughout the 3 hard drives, ... important anyway since hard drives comes with buffers for years. ... I think defragging is mainly for those who like things organized. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)