cant mount internal drive

oboedad55 · 2011-06-25 16:20:27

Hi, running Arch x64 with KDE. Is there some trick to mounting internal SATA drives?
When I plug them in they should show up in Dolphin? They don't. Any help would be appreciated.

ewaller · 2011-06-25 16:29:59

I'm a bit confused about the internal drive but, but okay...

Are you trying to hot plug the drives, or are they connected when you boot?

oboedad55 · 2011-06-25 16:34:13

Sorry for the vagueness. I want to hot plug the drive. If I have any drive but the boot drive plugged in Arch gets confused about which one is sda or sdb and can't find the kernel.

Last edited by oboedad55 (2011-06-25 16:40:34)

ewaller · 2011-06-25 16:58:18

I may be wrong (if so, I know someone will point it out), but I don't think you can hot plug SATA drives and have them automount.

At a more basic level, I think the solution to your root problem would be to use UUIDs in GRUB to identify your partitions.

gamer01 · 2011-06-25 17:57:56

i guess its a problem closer to the hardware, maybe that the mainbord sets the satadrive master to your other internal and so the devices get REnamed and your the sd? stuff gets switched

oboedad55 · 2011-06-25 19:18:52

Thanks for the replies. I found a kludge that will serve my purpose. I have Arch on two SATA drives; if I swap the cables to make the one I want to boot be drive #1 then I can leave the other one which is then recognized and I can pull data off of it. Maybe there's a slicker way to do this? If I use the bios boot menu and pick the drive I want Arch gets confused, even with UUIDs.

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#1 2011-06-25 16:20:27

cant mount internal drive

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