From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: I first double checked to see that the drive was slave and on ide0 chain. Having done that and scratched my head I found this in my syslogger: hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM20.5, ATA DISK drive hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, ATA DISK drive hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 011, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX175E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 But when trying to fdisk the drive I can only seem to find it when I do a fdisk /dev/hdd. (I was not sure where to post this - I thought it mounting related though.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. installed the drive as slave on ide0 2. boot up 3. no drive @ hdb Actual Results: I tried accessing the drive but get the error: # ./fdisk /dev/hdb Unable to open /dev/hdb # but curiously I tried hdc and hdd and hdd was willing to be fdisked!?!? despite that is is technically my CDRW. Expected Results: hdb = hdb, fdisk, write fs, happy. Additional info: Tried posting to comp.os.linux.hardware and psyche-listserv. Without resolution.
To follow this up - I could not fdisk the hdd partition - as I came to surmise that it is the write buffer on my CDRW. So - I used pqmagic to clean and make my new 6GB drive into an ext3 system - yet I cannot see/mount/fdisk/etc....anything to my hdb - I would think the drive messed up - but I can see it with windows.
Sorry, this is one of those "call support because you have a totally weird hardware setup" type of bugs. :\ Those symptoms are really strange. If you have a way for me to reproduce the problem on any random system, it'll be easier for me to try solving it.
Well I sorted this one out - forgot about the bug report - I had the burner in the hdb slot before - so the grub.conf still pointed the scsi=ide thing to hdb. After I changed that to point to hdd (where the burner is) - no problems! Everything works great now.