Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> by the way I have mounted these drive with write permission to users
> in fstab:
> ====================
> /dev/hdd1 /mnt/common vfat rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gameiso ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
> ====================
>
> Another clue I found is:
> ==================
> I have some movies stored in my /mnt/common. It happens (usually but
> not sure that it happens everytime) when I play these movies with
> mplayer.
Hmm. Could you do a
ls -lart /var/log
just after the mount has gone away. That will show you if there have
been any log files that have been modified recently. Then please do a
tail -20 /var/log/messages
(and similarly for any other files that have been modified recently).
At a guess, I'd say that there's either something wrong with the drive,
something wrong with the cable, or possibly with the motherboard.
Out of interest, what are /dev/hda and /dev/hdc? Is there anything else
on those two IDE channels?
Incidentally, you don't need the "defaults" in /etc/fstab, as long as
there's something else there. (You need *something* for the mount
options -- "defaults" is just a "do nothing" word to put there if you
haven't got any other mount options).
Hope this helps,
James.
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