[plug] Gentoo - hdc & hdd dissappeared

[Peter F Bradshaw]

Hi Shannon;

Step one would have to be to check whether the drives show up in BIOS.
My guess is that they will not. If they do not then it is a hardware
problem. In this case the most likely case is the failure of one of the
drives.

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Shannon Carver wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I've just got home after doing a major emerge last night, to find that
> my hdc and hdd have gone walkies.
>
> I get:
> VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
> input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
> hda: WDC WD2500JB-00GVA0, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe !
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe !
> hda: max request size: 1024KiB
> hda: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63,
> UDMA(100)
> hda: cache flushes supported
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
> hdb: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(33)
>
> So, I'm not sure if my two drives have simultaneously shat themselves or
> what.  The fact that the "ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe !"
> shows up, probably isn't a good sign.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Shannon

Cheers

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