Drive not showing up in "Computer" - Beginner
Micheal
sundance at sundanceloki.com
Fri Oct 22 06:34:50 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 01:31, Bradley (FC2 List) wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Micheal" <sundance at sundanceloki.com>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 1:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Drive not showing up in "Computer" - Beginner
>
>
> > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 00:49, Bradley (FC2 List) wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 00:34, Bradley (FC2 List) wrote:
> > > > > I have a 6 gig IDE drive, secondary master that I would like to use
> to
> > > share
> > > > > files across OSs. It does not show up in the "Computer" group with
> > > > > filesystem and CD drives. Do I need to edit something to make this
> show
> > > up?
> > > > > The file system is fat32. I am using FC2 and Gnome.
> > > >
> > > > Could you post your /etc/fstab file? This is what controls what drives
> > > > get "mounted" to what file system
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > MC
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reply:
> > >
> > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults
> > > 1 1
> > > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults
> > > 1 2
> > > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
> > > 0 0
> > > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
> > > 0 0
> > > none /proc proc defaults
> > > 0 0
> > > none /sys sysfs defaults
> > > 0 0
> > > /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults
> > > 0 0
> > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660
> > > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> > > /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660
> > > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> > > noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Thanks Bradley
> >
> > Well the drive is not showing up in fstab, so it is not getting mounted,
> > hence it showing up in Computer.
> >
> > First click on the "Red Hat" then system tools then hardware browser.
> > Type in your root password. Let it find your hardware, and then click on
> > hard drives. Make sure the 6 GB drive is showing up there. If it is
> > great move on. If not, then it is not being detected, boot into the
> > bios and make sure it is detected there. If not check the jumper
> > settings on the drive. If it is then check /var/log/messages for any
> > errors
> >
> > If the drive shows up in the Hardware Browser, which I think it will,
> > then you just have to edit /etc/fstab to have it mounted on boot. Note
> > the name of the drive that is 6GB it should be /dev/hdb or something
> > similar.
> >
> > Add this line to the bottom of the file.
> > /dev/mydrive(hdb1 or 2 or whatever) /mnt/share
> > vfat user,showexec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
> >
> > Make sure that you have a /mnt/share directory. It does not have to be
> > expicitly named share, anything will work so long as the file matches
> > the directory.
> >
> > to mount the drive as root type mount --all
> >
> > Let me know if this helps
> >
> >
> > MC
> >
> Michael,
> I think I was able to do all you suggested. When I enter the mount --all
> command, I get this error:
> wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted
> file systems.
>
> The drive shows up in "computer" as "share" and gives me the same error when
> I try to open.
>
> Thanks
> b
>
Try /dev/hdc1 in your /etc/fstab file. hdc is the drive hdc1 is the
partition. Sorry I wasn't clear on that :)
MC
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