1 Topic by GuyboR (edited by GuyboR 2012-01-08 20:06:52)

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Topic: No Device Detected

I am struggling to get gparted live (latest version 11.07) running on my SBS2003 server.  It boots but doesn't recognize any devices except a sata3 external hd that I use to do backups.  It isn't seeing my "standard" drives on my Smart Array 642 Drive controller. (This is an HP Proliant server)

Any ideas on what I need to do or where to point me.  I'm NOT a linux person, so please type slowly so I can follow. (grin)

Guy

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Re: No Device Detected

To see if you drives are recognized by Linux, try opening a terminal window and enter the following command and posting the output in this thread:

fdisk -l -u

where one of the options is a lowercase "L", and not the number one.

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Re: No Device Detected

gedakc wrote:

To see if you drives are recognized by Linux, try opening a terminal window and enter the following command and posting the output in this thread:

fdisk -l -u

where one of the options is a lowercase "L", and not the number one.

I get nothing.  It just goes back to the prompt of
user@debian~$

How do I see the log file of the bootup?  There were some "warnings" in it, but it went too fast to catch them.


Also as a side note.  I was able to do this same thing a few years ago on the same computer.
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=263

So....I download version 0.3.4 again.  This version saw my drives.  I'm now working my way thru old versions to see when it stops seeing it.
Version 0.9.0.6 - Sees the drives

Drives seen
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3

I'm downloading 10.0.3 right now to see if it works.

Guy

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Re: No Device Detected

Update.....
All work up to 11.0.2. 
11.0.7 does not work

I was able to type dmesg to see messages in 11.0.7.  I found the following error which I think is what is causing 0.7 to not work.

[2.965545] scsi2: sata_promise
[2.968130] cciss 0000:06:01.0: unable to get IRQ16 for cciss0
[2.968220] cciss probe of 0000:06:01.0 failed with error -1

I'm going to do my partition rearranging with 11.0.2.  But if you need me to boot 11.0.7 to give you any more debugging info, just let me know.

Guy

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Re: No Device Detected

Hold tight.  11.0.2 didn't see the sata_promise either.  I need to do more debugging to see why it didn't work this time.

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Re: No Device Detected

The Promise Technologies card that it's not finding is a SATA300 TX4302 that I've installed to be able to do backups to an external eSata drive.

I noticed that my server didn't see it even b4 booting from the gParted live CD.  The old version 3.4 was able to see the "normal" drives just fine.  But booting to 11.0.2 and .7 didn't see them again.  Not sure what is going on with it.

I'm fired and going to take a break for a few hours.

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Re: No Device Detected

The reason it wasn't finding the Promise Technologies card before even booting is b/c I didn't have a drive in the dock of it.  D'oh!

But after playing and trying to get 11.x to boot, it still wouldn't.  10 booted just fine and I'm on the reboot stage after altering some partitions and getting more space into my boot drive C:

Here is a screenshot of the way my system looked before the alterations just to see if you can see anything strange.
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7913/drivesetup.jpg

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Re: No Device Detected

I get nothing.  It just goes back to the prompt of
user@debian~$

Did you try to give

sudo fdisk -l -u

instead of a simple fdisk command?
sudo gives superuser rights for this command. fdisk is able to make alterations to the hard drive structure, so it needs this power!


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