[plug] Problems after hard drive swap around

[Garth Atkinson]

Hi Greg

Do you have a cdrom drive somewhere in your system?

Has the drive on hda (and hdc) been set to master/single drive only?

Garth

Greg Raftery wrote:
> 
> Hello Pluggers,
> 
> I have strange messages on booting up my box after my weekend exercise in
> swapping two drives around, and wonder if anyone knows what is going on.
> 
> What I did was this : Original install was on /dev/hda. Put a second
> installation on /dev/hdc, jumping into either at the LILO prompt, which
> worked sweet. Slowly but surely configured the new installation to run how I
> wanted it. Decided this weekend that I didn't need the old install anymore,
> so swapped the drives around so that hda became hdc and vice versa. Fiddled
> with /etc/fstab and reinstalled LILO and I can boot into the new install
> just fine, except for the following strange messages when booting up
> relating to a 'hdb' :
> 
> ide0: buggy RZ1000 interface: disabled read-ahead
> hda: ST3660A, 520MB w/120kB Cache, CHS=528/32/63
> hdb: non-IDE drive, CHS=723/13/51 **** THE FIRST WEIRD LINE
> hdc: QUANTUM LP240A GM240A01X, 234MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=723/13/51
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> 
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2
>  hdb:hdb: status error: status=0x00 { } **** AND THE REST ****
> hdb: drive not ready for command
> hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> hdb: drive not ready for command
> hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> hdb: drive not ready for command
> hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> hdb: drive not ready for command
> ide0: reset: success
> hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> hdb: drive not ready for command
> hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> hdb: drive not ready for command
> hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> hdb: drive not ready for command
> hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> hdb: drive not ready for command
> ide0: reset: success
> hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40, sector 0
> hdb: drive not ready for command
>  unable to read partition table
>  hdc: hdc1
> 
> When I disconnect hdc and boot up the messages do not appear. The drive has
> been repartitioned to a single partition and had a new filesystem created on
> it. Apart from the messages about 'hdb', all seems well, as I can mount
> /dev/hdc1.
> 
> What is going on?
> 
> Thanks for any pointers (sorry about the length of the description)
> Greg Raftery