[PLUG] Can't mount old drive in Debian

Robert Citek robert.citek at gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 21:39:23 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:56 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> All seemed to go well, but Squeeze is not finding the drive. I get the following:
>
> jjj at Devil8:~$ dmesg |tail
> [40648.050094] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0
> [40648.050100] hda: Strange, packet command initiated yet DRQ isn't asserted
> ...
>
> Can someone offer suggestions?

Is the drive supposed to be hda?  I thought all SATA drives and even
IDE(PATA) drives in newer linux distros would be referred to as sda.

Do you get the same results if you boot up with a LiveCD, e.g.
Knoppix, Fedora, or Ubuntu?

Regards,
- Robert



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