[Solved] Amahi not recognizing harddrive, but fedora 12 is

[tnorman]

First off, I'm a bit of a newb when it comes to linux, but I'm trying.

I installed Amahi on a 120g pata hard drive and then rebooted and attached 7 additional hard drives (3 pata and 4 sata). Following the directions in the adding a second hard drive wiki http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Adding_ ... o_your_HDA

I added and formated all 7 drives ext4. After performing an hda-diskmount the list of mounted drives only shows the 4 sata drives and 3 of the pata drives. One of the drives /dev/sdc1 isn't being mounted by Amahi, but it is being recognized by Fedora when I run a ls -l /dev/disk/by - id/ |egrep -v "part|scsi|

I have formatted /dev/sdc twice and I'm currently running an e2fsck -cn /dev/sdc1 to see if there are any bad sectors that might be causing an issue. I doubt it though since it had been working fine in another install.

Any ideas?

[radioz]

It's not something silly like Master/Slave jumpers on the PATA drives is it?

[tnorman]

I just checked and no that isn't an issue. I did have that drive's jumpers set as master with slave so I just changed it to straight master. The other drive is set to specifically be a slave. But that really shouldn't have mattered and after trying to add it again with hda-diskmount the results stay the same.

I also re-formated as a ext3 and then as fat32 and reran the hda-diskmount each time with no change.

Next I'll switch the drive to slave and the other one to master and see what happens. And then I'll find another pata cable. Though I don't see how either of those could be the issue since Fedora is able to see the drive and format the drive.

It seems odd that it would be anything hardware related. Maybe Amahi has something against Western Digital 320gb drives.

[tnorman]

I just finished changing out the pata cable and switching the disks from master to slave and vice versa. Nothing changed beyond the problem disk is now at /dev/sdd because of the master/slave switch.

Amahi still refuses to see the partitions but in the disks it is still listed. Same as it has been from the beginning.

Is there a limit to the partitions that amahi can see?

[tnorman]

I think I may have found the culprit, though I haven't finished checking yet. Going in the Applications -> System Tools -> Disk Utilities brings up Palimpsest Disk Utility.

Under this I can see the 320g hard drive and it seems to have a partition that is label as ZFS. I'm betting when I was playing around with freenas and ZFS that I formatted this drive that way and the system won't see it any other way. So it doesn't recognize it as a usable drive.

I formatted all the other drives, and attempted to do it with this drive several times using gparted. Perhaps I didn't do what I thought I was cause I just formatted it with gparted and ran hda-diskmount. And this time it mounted the drive.

I now have all my drives reporting. I know I changed that drive's file system several times, but it never barfed up errors about it being a file system it didn't recognize until I looked at it using the disk utility. Perhaps something finally kicked it into gear.

So in the end it was something silly.

[radioz]

Glad you got it working!