Re: External SCSI Hard Drive Not Auto-mounting
On 00:45 Sun 06 Nov , Scarletdown wrote:
> I just recently installed an Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI adapter, so I could
> make use of this spare 4.3GB external SCSI hard drive. Anyway, I
> partitioned the drive and used mkfs to create an ext3 file system on it.
>
> I then created a mount point for it /workspace/Multimedia, and updated
> my fstab file, which now looks like this:
>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/hda10 /archives ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda7 /opt ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda6 /root ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hdb2 /shared ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda5 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda9 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda8 /var ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hdb3 /workspace ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hdd1 /shared/Public ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda4 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/sda1 /workspace/Multimedia ext3 defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdc /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
>
> I suspect the problem has to do with my partitions being mounted during
> boot up before the SCSI drivers are loaded. If this is the case, then
> is there a way to get the SCSI drivers to load earlier in the boot
> process? I can mount the partition manually after logging in, so I know
> that the drive itself is good.
If you compile your SCSI driver into the kernel (not as module), your
disk will be recognized. If you also have your root filesystem (ext3)
compiled into the kernel, you should be able to boot, even without a
initrd.img (assuming you are using one).
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