[plug] Problems after hard drive swap around

[Greg Raftery]

Garth,

I haven't put the CD Rom in yet.

I will check out the Master/Slave thing when I get home. I am pretty sure
the Quantum (hdc) doesn't have any jumpers to make this distinction. They
are on individual cables on different IDE channels.

Ta
Greg Raftery

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garth Atkinson [mailto:garth at cclinic.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, 10 January 2000 9:33
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Problems after hard drive swap around
> 
> 
> 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
>