I have a computer with 2 internal hard drives and one of them doesn't show up in the bios until I reboot. Almost every time. Does this mean the drive is going to fail or the cable is bad or what?
View 4 RepliesWhen i try to install ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop i get through the first 3 steps which are Language, Region, and Keyboard. when i get to Prepare partitions, there is nothing there (same problem with 9.10). I followed the steps of another thread about removing the raid settings and I am sure i did that correctly but it did not work, when i try to find my drives in terminal they can not even be found.
Both of my drives are SATA, one is 250gb, other is 500gb. They are both recognized by other operating systems. I have switched the SATA headers that they are plugged into. I really am just not sure what else to do here. Im not totally stupid at linux, ive been using it for a few years and i have taken two classes for linux in the past year. I really feel dumb for not being able to figure this out :/
After a reboot (why did I do that???) one of the hard drives on my machine refuses to mount with the following message:
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
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I've made 2 ntfs volumes by mkntfs. First one is a primary partition on usb hard drive and second is a logical partition on system hard drive. I used default cluster and sector sizes in mkntfs. Under Linux these partitions are mountable by ntfs-3g, readable and writable. But fdisk doesn't recognize their filesystem type. It recognizes that as "Linux". WinXP x64 also can't recognize filesystem type of these partitions. Why windows can't work with these partitions?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm using Debian Testing & it does not automount any external usb devices.
Here's what I've checked:
gconf-edit->app->nautilus->preferences->media_automount: checked
gconf-editor->desktop->gnome->volume_manager->automount_drives & automount_media:checked
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When I set my preferences via the Appearance Preferences dialogue they are not preserved after reboot. It always reverts back to Visual Effects; "None" upon reboot or logoff.
"Theme" and "Background" preferences are preserved but "Fonts" and "Visual Effects" are not.
The None setting forces my PC to exhibit wacky renderings making it unusable. Normal or Extra settings function as expected.
In windows 7, I had 5 partitions on a hard disk: C, D, E, F, G . I installed Scientific Linux 5.0 on C partition and it removed Win 7 . It's graphic mode didn't work, also I couldn't access to the other drives. I replaced it by Fedora 13. I can work graphically Fedora but when I mount the other drives, just D drive is visible! Is there any solution that I could access to the data on other drives? By the way, the following is the output of fdisk -l .
[root@Niki ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-2: 38.3 GB, 38319161344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4658 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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I am building a home server that will host a multitude of files; from mp3s to ebooks to FEA software and files. I don't know if RAID is the right thing for me. This server will have all the files that I have accumulated over the years and if the drive fails than I will be S.O.L. I have seen discussions where someone has RAID 1 setup but they don't have their drives internally (to the case), they bought 2 separate external hard drives with eSata to minimize an electrical failure to the drives. (I guess this is a good idea)I have also read about having one drive then using a second to rsync data every week. I planned on purchasing 2 enterprise hard drives of 500 MB to 1 GB but I don't have any experience with how I should handle my data
View 10 Replies View RelatedI've installed Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal on a External HDD (320GB Samsung S2). Worked like a charm. Bit slow to boot up and load programs, but after a while, works great. I installed it on the external HDD for one purpose: Work anywhere with Ubuntu, no matter which computer I use. I was thinking that was impossible, but I've tested thru several platforms (3 Notebooks, 2 netbooks, all Intel and one AMD Desktop). All worked flawlessly (32 Bits PAE activated and no matter how many cores are active, just works), BUT the themes.For no apparent reason, themes works on the computer I've installed Ubuntu on the HDD. It has his own Internal HDD with Windows 7 and two NTFS partitions.
Themes are stuck to the default boring-white from Gnome. I can only change the window controls. Compiz works, Wireless works, video works, sound works, filesystem works, system works - themes fail. Feels like I've hit my feet's little finger on a chair. P.S.: Ext. HDD is partitioned like this: 300GB FAT32 (it's my pop's HDD, he wants it this way), 18GB EXT4, 2GB Swap.
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I have Fedora 14 installed on my main internal drive. I have one Fedora 14 and one Fedora 15 installed on two separate USB drives.When I boot into any of these drives, I can't access any of the other hard drives from the other drivesll I can, but just the boot partitions.Is there any way of mounting the other partitions so I can access the information?---------- Post added at 12:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:34 AM ----------I guess even an explanation on why I can't view them would be good too.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a SATA drive that worked fine. Then I installed two more hard drives into my system. When these hard drives are installed, if I try to access the SATA drive in Linux, it will start lightly clicking and then the drive will become unavailable. If I power on the machine without the other two hard drives then it works fine. What could be causing this to happen? I don't think it's heat because the two hard drives are far away from the SATA drive.
View 1 Replies View RelatedBox is an Intel NUC 5th Gen i5. It has 4 external USB 3.0 ports. It doesn't matter what port I plug the drive into, result is the same. Drives are a WD My Book 4TB. There are 2 of them, currently formatted as ext4, but it was the same deal when they were ntfs.
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I have a fresh installation of Debian 7.8.
It seems to me that I'm not seeing the transfer speeds that I would expect under USB 3.0.
hdparm -t
Code: Select allTiming buffered disk reads: 76 MB in 3.04 seconds = 25.03 MB/sec
lsusb
Code: Select allBus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1058:1230 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
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Is this correct for a USB 3 device?
I cannot access the web/ wireless internet...not my flash drives are being recognized.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI installed fedora on one of my three hard drives and it seems that something went wrong with the other two. Fedora recognizes the other drives but it seems the data on those drives is not there anymore. The below images are screen shots from my computer folder and disk utility program. I tried to look through Fedora documentation but I did not find a solution to my case.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI can't get Kubuntu to install. I put the disk in the drive and the Kubuntu Menu is displayed. I selected the Demo and Full Installation option. This sent me to another menu that asked if I wanted to reboot now or later. I chose now but instead of rebooting it went back to the Kubuntu menu. I then went to the start menu and selected Restart. When the computer restarted it didn't recognize the Kubuntu disc. I'm running Windows 7 in a 64-bit machine.
View 5 Replies View RelatedTrying to install Fedora 12 using the 6 CDs. Trying to install on an older x86 box.Problem is that when detecting my hard drive, Fedora 12 recognizes it as a sda hard drive instead of hda hard drive. I have no SCSI connected to my computer what so ever. It's an old fashion PATA Western Digital hard drive.If I proceed with the install, Fedora 12 only installs 200MB of the OS from the first CD only. No options for additional software or anything.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm relatively new to linux in this capacity. I've had to reboot a SAN host (iSCSI initiator). I took a grab of the df -h output before reboot to ensure I was all mounted again afterwards.
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Jupiter:~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 30G 18G 11G 64% /
udev 1007M 128K 1007M 1% /dev
/dev/sda3 30G 11G 18G 39% /var
/dev/sdb1 2.0T 1.2T 756G 61% /mnt/kvsan2/distribution
/mnt/kvsan2/distribution/wwwroot/kvAutoUpdate/publish 2.0T 1.2T 756G 61% /home/ftpupload.kv_users/config/ftp
/mnt/kvsan2/distribution/artwork 2.0T 1.2T 756G 61% /home/artwork
192.168.10.45:/mnt/KVSAN5_TH/mp3 2.0T 365G 1.7T 19% /home/ftpupload.kv_users/config/ftp/clips/mp3
192.168.10.45:/mnt/KVSAN5_TH/mpeg 2.0T 1.2T 878G 57% /home/ftpupload.kv_users/config/ftp/clips/mpeg
/mnt/kvsan2/distribution/wwwroot/kvAutoUpdate/publish/musiccon 2.0T 1.2T 756G 61% /home/artwork/Musiccon/autoupdate
/dev/sdc1 50G 23G 25G 49% /home/artwork/Musiccon/musicnew
However upon reboot I am faced with
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Jupiter:~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 30G 18G 11G 64% /
udev 1007M 128K 1007M 1% /dev
/dev/sda3 30G 11G 18G 39% /var
/dev/sdb1 2.0T 1.2T 756G 61% /mnt/kvsan2/distribution
Jupiter:~ #
I want to re-setup a raid array on some older drives using mdadm. That involved adding a single partition on 4 of my drives (3 older, 1 brand new - a replacement drive), using mdadm to create the array, etc. However, upon restarting the box, the 3 older drives do not show up as having partitions and hence mdadm cannot immediately start the array because 'there are not enough disks to start'.For example, if I do an ls command before I restart, I will see:
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ls -ltr /dev/sd*1
/dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1
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I am getting really frustrated with trying to get my RAID5 working again. I had a RAID5 array built with 4 of the Western Digital 1.5tb "Advanced Format" drives, WD15EARS. However, when copying 1.5gb dvd encoded files to the drive, I was getting speeds of ~2mb/s. When researching how to make this faster, I came across all the posts about the Advanced Format drives and how that was causing a lot of issues for a lot of people. It looked like the solution was simple enough: partition starting at sector 64 or 2048 or whatever and then recreate the RAID. However, this is not working for me.
Here are my computer specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W
RAM: 4gb DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
Video card: ASUS GeForce 9600GT 512MB 256-bit
Linux: 10.04
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I have a 2nd hard drive (500 GB) that I keep my media on. When I tried to access it, it wasn't showing up in places or even places > computer. I used system > administration > disk utility. On the left hand side it shows the drive listed with the type and model number. Right under that it shows 500 GB Hard Drive unrecognized unknown or unused. If possible I would like to recover the media on this drive. I had setup this drive as ext3 and had it mount /media/sdb1. I can go to /media/sdb1 in the file browser but nothing is there.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI had windows 7 installed on my machine and decided to go with a ubuntu win7 dual boot. The install went fine, but Ubuntu doesn't see my second HDD as anything but empty. My second HDD I set up in win7. It is actually two 320GB HDD striped together. It is holding alot of data that I would like to be able to access from both win7 and ubuntu.
When I run fdisk -l in the terminal I get:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf1c572ca .....
So Ubuntu sees the two HDD, just not as one with all my data on it like I see it in windows. Is there a way to set it up so I can use that second HDD (the two stripped) in both win7 and Ubuntu?
I have 2 Hard Disks in my computer both of them show in File & Folders, and they are both formated by Ububtu, I use the 2nd one for my Data storage as it's the larger of the two. The problem I have is that certain programs just don't see it! For example Album Shaper sees the boot drive but not the 2nd one which has all my photo's on it. OpenOffice is not a problem it sees both drives. But there are a few programs that just don't see it.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install this OS. However no matter what I do the UBUNTU instllation CD doesn't recognize the hard drive on which I would like to install the OS on.
I currently have two SATA hard drives connected to my computer. MY primary is my Windows 7 drive and my second hard drive is my spare.
When i load up UBUNTU and get to the window where I can select which hard drive/partition to install to my second spare drive isn't there.
This hard disk is an old Maxtor (60G) extracted from an old computer, working fine. I placed in an enclosure and connected it to my Linux Box (Slack 12.1). It was recognized immediately and mounted automatically. However, before giving away the hard disk, I tried to wipe the data by running shred /dev/sdf At some point, I realized that it was going to take a long time, and aborted the process and disconnected the enclosure. Now, none of my Linux boxes recognize the disk inside the enclosure. Here is the output, when I plug in the usb cable, while using systemrescuecd on my desktop computer:
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Aug 20 00:58:17 sysresccd kernel: [ 3582.116029] usb 2-6: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 12
Aug 20 00:58:17 sysresccd kernel: [ 3582.316054] usb 2-6: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
Aug 20 00:58:17 sysresccd kernel: [ 3582.322051] usb 2-6: New USB device found, idVendor=04b4, idProduct=8613
Aug 20 00:58:17 sysresccd kernel: [ 3582.322054] usb 2-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0,
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Is there a way to use this hard disk at this point?
I have a Centos 5.5 system with 2* 250 gig sata physical drives, sda and sdb. Each drive has a linux raid boot partition and a Linux raid LVM partition. Both pairs of partitions are set up with raid 1 mirroring. I want to add more data capacity - and I propose to add a second pair of physical drives - this time 1.5 terabyte drives presumably sdc and sdd. I assume I can just plug in the new hardware - reboot the system and set up the new partitions, raid arrays and LVMs on the live system. My first question:
1) Is there any danger - that adding these drives to arbitrary sata ports on the motherboard will cause the re-enumeration of the "sdx" series in such a way that the system will get confused about where to find the existing raid components and/or the boot or root file-systems? If anyone can point me to a tutorial on how the enumeration of the "sdx" sequence works and how the system finds the raid arrays and root file-system at boot time
2) I intend to use the majority of the new raid array as an LVM "Data Volume" to isolate "data" from "system" files for backup and maintenance purposes. Is there any merit in creating "alternate" boot partitions and "alternate" root file-systems on the new drives so that the system can be backed up there periodically? The intent here is to boot from the newer partition in the event of a corruption or other failure of the current boot or root file-system. If this is a good idea - how would the system know where to find the root file-system if the original one gets corrupted. i.e. At boot time - how does the system know what root file-system to use and where to find it?
3) If I create new LVM /raid partitions on the new drives - should the new LVM be part of the same "volgroup" - or would it be better to make it a separate "volgroup"? What are the issues to consider in making that decision?
I have an external hard drive that connects through an expansion card with eSATA on it. It was partitioned and formatted as NTFS in Windows but isn't recognized in Ubuntu 10.04.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently purchased 3 new WD cavier green 500gb drives with the intent of building a raid5 array and running linux. Admittedly I purchased without doing enough research and now I have serious doubts about running an os on raid5 with the onboard controller.So now I am thinking I should run one drive as an OS drive and mirror the other two. I don't have a fourth drive unless someone can convince my wife I need a fourth after already buying 3....
Is it possible to have multiple distributions where ALL distros save their docs to the raid dives? That way I can wipe/install the os and keep my files? I seem to recall that I can be done, just need someone to point the compass.
I'm very new to Ubuntu. Now that I have it installed, my computer doesn't recognize my external hard drive or flash drive. How do I access my external hard drive and flash drive? I'm also trying to get Rosetta Stone to work using Wine, but having a heck of a time. I've searched the forums and have found some similar topics, but nothing that really helped me.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI tried to install Centos 5.5 on a new IBM X3650M3 7945 and the hard drive was not found. (actually 1 SAS 300 Gb in slot 1)
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