Fedora Core 3 help required -- missing drive!

Tristan · 15-01-2005, 21:49

I've recently installed Fedora Core 3 on a spare hard disk. My set up looks like this:

2x 120GB SATA drives in RAID 0 with Windows XP installed (NTFS) -- 1 partition
1 x 80GB IDE drive with 4 paritions (3 ext3, 1 FAT32)

On installing FC3 the first time, I found that even though it recognised my Promise RAID controller, it couldn't see the two drives as being "RAIDed": it wanted to address them separately as SDA and SDB. This meant that I couldn't read any files off my Windows drive.

To get around this, I reinstalled Fedora, including a 5GB FAT32 partition on the Linux disk. This would allow me to copy files between the two OSes. Now this partition shows up perfectly well in Windows -- it was autodetected and just sits there as drive D:

Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it at all in Fedora! When I've used Linux before, any Windows paritions have always shown up in the /mnt directory. However, the only thing that appears in this directory is a folder called cdrecord, which (surprise surprise) points to my CD drive.

Does anybody have any idea where my missing drive is? Surely I don't have to manually mount a FAT32 drive, do I?

Running fdisk -l (as root, which I forgot before

) gives the following:

Disk /dev/hda: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 650 5116702+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda3 651 10011 75192232+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 29185 234428481 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Reps for anybody who can help!

Tristan · 15-01-2005, 21:59

Hmm, think I've gone some way to solving my own problem!

I created a new directory /mnt/winswap and then exectuted

mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/winswap

and I can read the files in my swap directory! Hurrah! Now why the hell didn't Fedora do this automatically?

Anybody know how I can make it automatically mount the drive at boot-time?

Plonking · 15-01-2005, 22:23

howdy,

you need to mess about with your etc/fstab/ ... for more info go here

hope this helps...

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Tristan · 15-01-2005, 22:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by Plonking

howdy,

you need to mess about with your etc/fstab/ ... for more info go here

hope this helps...

P

Thanks, I was busy doing this when you posted

Now works though.

Now if only I could get it to read the ral Windows parition... the 2.6 kernel is supposed to support my RAID controller (Promise 376) and everything...

Oh, and does anybody know whether there's an RPM of the nVidia drivers for FC3? http://rpm.livna.org has the "official" ones for FC2, but not 3.

Thanks again!

It's a hell of a lot easier on Windows, isn't it...

Graham M · 15-01-2005, 23:24

Nvidia's site should have the latest drivers which dont take a lot to install just read the readme and youll be fine. Just keep up with it!

Tristan · 16-01-2005, 00:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeph

Nvidia's site should have the latest drivers which dont take a lot to install just read the readme and youll be fine. Just keep up with it!

I would, but I'm a bit unsure about how to edit the x.org config files from text mode... plus there is aparently a conflict with the nvidia drivers and the Red Hat Graphical Boot programme... and my computer locks up when switching to runlevel 3, which is required for the driver installation...

So all in all it's a bit scary for a relative linux newbie like me, so I want a nice, easy RPM that'll do it all for me!

Plonking · 16-01-2005, 12:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tristan

Thanks, I was busy doing this when you posted

haha cool... i read your post and then couldn't remember how to do it.. then it came rushing back to me

as for the other problems you seem to be having... it sounds very scary! i had a look on google to see if i could help, but there seems to be little out there that can help you. have you tried asking on some fc forums? you may find some nice person builds rpms for your distro and has it on a site somewhere..

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