unable to mount secondary hard disks now

[Paul T. Root]

I'm not entirely sure, but it sure looks like da1s4c to me.

Why is one drive da0c and the other da1s1c? How did you set them
up?

Shea Frederick wrote:
> Im running FreeBSD 5.3, its an almost fresh install. Its been running
> for about 7 days now. I have an internal IDE drive that the OS runs
> from, then I have two external firewire drives (da0, da1) that are
> only used as Samba shares.
> 
> This morning i found that one of the firewire drives are no longer
> mounted (da1), this might have happened when I uninstalled Samba 2.x
> and installed 3.x yesterday, then rebooted. but im not sure, because i
> didnt check to see if the drive was still mounted after the reboot.
> 
> So i figured i would just mount it again (even though da1 in the fstab)....
> 
> FileServer# mount /dev/da1s1c /mnt/jabba
> mount: /dev/da1s1c on /mnt/jabba: incorrect super block
> 
> So now im not realy sure what to do, this drive was working perfectly
> before the reboot.
> 
> someone told me to run fsck on the drive, but that gives me the following error.
> 
> FileServer# fsck /dev/da1s1c
> ** /dev/da1s1c
> Cannot find file system superblock
> /dev/da1s1c: NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM (unused)
> 
> here is what fdisk returns...
> 
> FileServer# fdisk /dev/da1s1c
> ******* Working on device /dev/da1s1c *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=9728 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
> 
> Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cylinders=9728 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
> 
> Media sector size is 512
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
> The data for partition 1 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 2 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 3 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is:
> sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>         beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 1;
>         end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
> 
> Here are the relevant lines from my fstab...
> /dev/da0c               /mnt/yoda       ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/da1s1c             /mnt/jabba      ufs     rw              2       2
> 
> Thanks in advance
> -Shea


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