Hard drive is now invisible

[chousho]

After first installing F9 on my desktop, I was able to use my 2nd hdd. However, after rebooting it no longer shows up at all. The primary is through SATA, the disappearing one is connected through an ATA Controller card.

The 2nd hdd should be about 400GB (give or take, you know how that works).

# df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 12599 6622 5337 56% /
/dev/mapper/luks-sda6
66633 61128 2121 97% /home
tmpfs 1014 1 1013 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdd1 125 46 80 37% /media/disk
/dev/sda2 102132 85679 16454 84% /media/disk-1
/dev/sda1 6150 5915 236 97% /media/disk-2
/dev/sdf1 1937 1432 506 74% /media/NO LABEL


I'm not seeing it show up through df, though... Is All Hope Lost™?

[JohnVV]

can you post the output of

fdisk -l

this should see the drive

[chousho]

Hey! Thanks for the reply :D

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x06b4ed26

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 784 6297448+ 12 Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda2 * 785 13804 104583150 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 13805 15436 13109040 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 15437 24321 71368762+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 15437 15691 2048256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 15692 24321 69320443+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdd: 131 MB, 131072000 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 500 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 500 127976+ 6 FAT16

Disk /dev/dm-0: 70.9 GB, 70983605760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8629 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdf: 2032 MB, 2032664576 bytes
64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 984 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdf1 1 984 1983619+ 6 FAT16

[JohnVV]

well what is mounter at
/dev/sdd1 -131 MB?? fat16
/dev/sdf1 - almost 2 gig fat16 ????
i have not seen fat16 used since windows 3.1 or win 95
and WHAT did you use to format/ partition the drives
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windows is here " /dev/sda2 * "
fedora starts here " /dev/sda3 "
" Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table " means that there IS a
LVM disk someplace ,and seeing as " sdb " and" sdc " are MISSING .I am assuming that is where the missing disk is .
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so UNLESS you are running windows 3.1 or 95 on those fat16 drives use gparted to reformat them to ext3.
Use SystemRescueCd http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
to repartition ALL/EVERYTHING ( except for sda1,sda2 )
and reinstall fedora

[chousho]

well what is mounter at
/dev/sdd1 -131 MB?? fat16
/dev/sdf1 - almost 2 gig fat16 ????
i have not seen fat16 used since windows 3.1 or win 95
and WHAT did you use to format/ partition the drives
------
windows is here " /dev/sda2 * "
fedora starts here " /dev/sda3 "
" Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table " means that there IS a
LVM disk someplace ,and seeing as " sdb " and" sdc " are MISSING .I am assuming that is where the missing disk is

Hmm, sorry for not mentioning those before.

The 131MB is my XD card for my camera. The 2GB is my Phone which has an SD card in it.

Perhaps /dev/dm-0 could be my unrepentant hard drive, though. How would I go about setting it up properly? (ie: get to contain a valid partition table). I had previously been able to access it, and have it stored with plenty of files that I'd like to access again.

[glennzo]

I'm far from expert with the LVM stuff but the /dev/dm entries seem to be part of the LVM partitioning scheme. This is from one of my computers with LVM.[eric@slowhand ~]$ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
[sudo] password for eric:

Disk /dev/sda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc7e7c7e7

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 9964 79835017+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 80.6 GB, 80631300096 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9802 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30307800

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[eric@slowhand ~]$