At 6:25 PM -0500 5/3/06, Brian Hanks wrote: >[I wrote}: >> At 1:31 PM -0500 5/3/06, bhanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>I've run into the same problem where I have an old hard drive with an >>>EXT3 partition what cannot be mounted following the FC5 install. Note >>>that this same partition will mount fine using Knoppix or older versions >>>of Fedora. >>> >>>I recently installed FC5 on my main machine. This machine used to run >>>FC4, but this was not an install. I dropped two new 160GB SATA drives >>>into the machine and performed a clean install. Prior to the install I >>>backed all of my important data files up to an old 40GB IDE drive. I am >>>using both software RAID and LVM on the new install, but everything went >>>smoothly with that. The only issue is that the EXT3 partition on the old >>>40GB drive cannot be mounted. It produces and error as follows: >>> ["mount: /dev/hde1 is not a valid block device"] >>> >>>This IDE drive is connected to an HPT302 IDE controller card, but the >>>last time I had problems with a card of this type was several years ago. >>> >>>I've been down the SE Linux road, and that doesn't seem to be the issue. >>> >>>Any other ideas? >> >> Hmm, when I try to screw around with non-existent or non-block devices I >> get different error messages, so mount has a specific complaint about your >> /dev/hde1. What happens if you try to dd from it? >> >> dd if=/dev/hde1 of=/dev/null count=100000 >I ran partprobe on /dev/hde and that changed the error message to the >following: mount: /dev/hde1 already mounted or /mnt/sata_files busy > >Unfortunately, it stil won't mount, unmount, or anything else. > >Per your suggestion, I ran the dd command it it ran fine. No errors - all >data copied. OK. Does it show up in /proc/mounts, by any chance? (I'm presently feeling distrustful of mount.) I'm not sure what partprobe has done -- why anything changed. Does "fdisk -l /dev/hde" (dash ell) output look sane? ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
