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Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup



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On 04/21/08 03:50, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> Hi all,
> Hopefully an easy question. I have a dodgy 2nd hard disk which I can't
> remove for the moment. On bootup I get a million error messages like this:
>  device hdb1, logical block 1
> hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=65, high=0,
> low=65, sector=65
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 65
> Buffer I/O error on device hdb1, logical block 2
> hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=65, high=0,
> low=65, sector=63
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 63
> 
> Eventually bootup gets through this but now booting takes about 15 minutes.
> Is there anything in the startup routine that I can alter so that the
> system ignores /dev/hdb?
> /dev/hda is fine and that's where my system resides. I tried disabling the
> 2nd hard disk from the bios but that didn't seem to have any effect.

In /etc/fstab, try adding noauto to /dev/hdbX's field #4.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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