[NTLUG:Discuss] Lost drive

[Nathan Thern]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 14:37 -0500, Michael Barnes wrote:
>>>   When it boots up, the POST splashes
>>> the card and the drive.  fdisk -l /dev/sdb returns nothing.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on other things to check?  At first, it wouldn't even boot
>>> until I commented out the drive mounting in fstsab.
> I commented out all references to the drive in fstab and the computer
> booted up just fine.

I know your problem looks like it's solved, but I do have another
comment. According to some googling results I found last night, it
might be a problem of insufficient power. When you were having your
problem, did your dmesg display anything like

ata2: hard resetting link
ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xff)
ata2: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata2: reset failed, giving up

I get lots of messages like that. Tonight I'm going to find a bigger
power supply and see if that solves my problem.

regards,
NT