Hard disk issues

[Gabriel Birrane]

Hi all,

I have two 250Gb Western Digital internal SATA hard drives installed.
After much trouble with Graphics cards and firewire problems I was able to
get FC1 installed.

Here is my problem.

The output of 'df' looks like this:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1            240308484 165480988  62620508  73% /
/dev/sda1               101086      6435     89432   7% /boot
none                   1034196         0   1034196   0% /dev/shm

In /var/log/messages I see the following:

Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE00 ctl 
0xFE12 bmdma 0xFEA0 irq 9
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE20 ctl 
0xFE32 bmdma 0xFEA8 irq 9
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 488397168 
sectors (lba48)
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 488281250 
sectors (lba48)
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost autofs: automount startup succeeded
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: scsi0 : ata_piix
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: scsi1 : ata_piix
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel:   Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC 
WD2500JD-50F  Rev: 0.70
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                    
   ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel:   Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC 
WD2500JD-75F  Rev: 0.70
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                    
   ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 
0, id 0, lun 0
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 
0, id 0, lun 0
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (250059 MB)
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: Partition check:
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost smartd[5274]: smartd version 5.21 Copyright (C) 
2002-3 Bruce Allen
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost smartd[5274]: Home page is 
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: 488281250 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (250000 MB)
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost smartd[5274]: Opened configuration file 
/etc/smartd.conf
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel:  sdb: sdb1
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost smartd[5274]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf 
parsed.
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
block-major-3
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 
seconds
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost smartd[5274]: Device: /dev/hda, No such device or 
address, open() failed
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered 
data mode.
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost smartd[5274]: Unable to register ATA device 
/dev/hda at line 30 of file /etc/smartd.conf
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Feb 22 18:59:06 localhost smartd[5274]: Unable to register device /dev/hda 
(no Directive -d removable). Exiting.


Hardware browser gives the following information for Hard Drives

Drive /dev/sda (Geom:30401/255/63) (Model: ATA WDC WD2500JD-50F)
Drive /dev/sda (Geom:30394/255/63) (Model: ATA WDC WD2500JD-75F)

/dev/sda
sda1 Start 1 End 13 Size (MB) 102 Type ext3
sda2 Start 14 End 241  Size (MB) 1788 Type linux-swap
           Start 242 End 30401 Size (MB) 236582 Type Free space

/dev/sdb
sdb1   Start 1 End 30394 Size (MB) 238418 Type ext3

The output of the 'mount' command looks like the following

/dev/sdb1 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

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My questions:
1. How do I mount the second hard drive to create one continuous volume 
available
to the user space?

2. Is it possible to mix SATA and EIDE? I would like to install a third 
250Gb EIDE drive
in the last available bay.

3. Does the output of SMARTD look ok or does it suggest a problem with one 
of the drives?

Thank you very much for any suggestion you can offer me.

Gabriel.

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