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<DIV>The ide controller has gone missing. There is no listing in /dev for
ide, cdrw, dvd or anything of that relates to the ide connectors. The
drive is a 200GB SATA drive connected to the mainboard (Biostar P4TSV) </DIV>
<DIV>Vendor: ATA Model: WDC
WD2000JS-19M Rev: 02.0<BR>SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors
(200050 MB)</DIV>
<DIV>The really strange part is after the installation the system reboots with
"disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" So it doesn't even
recognise the sata drives or connection, after it has just finished doing the
install (how bright is that??).</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon<BR><BR>>>> tomasz_g@arach.net.au 5:47:14 am 6/01/2006
>>><BR>Jon Miller wrote:<BR>> After trying for hours on end to get
the system up I ended up rebuilding the system with the linux26 parameter and
got Debian to install. But after the install the same DVD/CDROM I used to
do the install went missing and now I cannot mount the drive. I had a look
in dmesg for any indication of a cdrom/dvd and there is nothing. Not even
a mention of the ide connection. Yet in the /etc/fstab there is an entry for a
cdrom on /media/cdrom0.<BR>> When I issue a mount command using "mount
/dev/hdc -t iso9660 /media/cdrom0" it does not work -<BR>> debOS:~# mount
/dev/hdc -t iso9660 /media/cdrom0<BR>> mount: special device /dev/hdc does
not exist<BR>> <BR>> Has anyone had this problem and fixed it?<BR>>
<BR>> Thanks<BR>> <BR>> JLM<BR>>
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<BR><BR><BR>Either sounds like the modules for the IDE controller are missing
(but <BR>this should not be so if your HDD is working), the IDE cable has come
<BR>loose from your CDROM, or you need to use the new 2.6 structures for
<BR>mounting cdroms, which places your drive under something like
<BR>/dev/bus/ide/ ... and I can't remember the
rest.<BR><BR>Tomasz<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>PLUG
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