Just some quick sanity checks (don't take them personally):<br><ol><li>This message comes from when Linux is booting and not the BIOS booting.</li><li>The BIOS set-up on the machine recognises the disk.</li><li>If possible S.M.A.R.T. checking is enables and hasn't fired any errors for the disk (possible with old disks).</li>
<li>All physical connections have been given the usual extra wiggle/push to tighten.<br></li></ol><p>A couple of pointers/questions:<br></p><p></p><ol><li>What distribution are you using?</li><li>Have you configured the disks to be checked at boot time? (See pass-num: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab</a> )</li>
<li>What is the file system being used? (EXT3/EXT4 etc...)</li><li>At what point/which application/process/log gives that error message?<br></li></ol><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 January 2012 16:27, Rich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klug-mail@richayres2.plus.com">klug-mail@richayres2.plus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi All<br>
I have been having trouble in mounting a newly installed Hard drive. I have edited /etc/fstab and the disc's (I know CLI etc require the Yankee spelling -disk-but outside of that I spell in English) UUID, mount point etc.<br>
When I boot up I get the Message " Drive may be slow to respond or not present" and gives the option of mounting manually.<br>
mount /mnt /dev/hdb1 is successful and I can access the contents of the drive with ls /mnt so disc does exist and will mount O.K.<br>
Is there anything else I should be doing? As you know my machines are old but I have never had this problem before even with this disc on another box. Any suggestions please?<br>
Rich<br>
<br>
______________________________<u></u>_________________<br>
Kent mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
<a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/<u></u>mailman/listinfo/kent</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br>