not seeing the second disk

[Asif Iqbal]

Hi

I am running Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS generic 64 bit on sun fire x4100. I do
not see the second disk. Looks like it might have
broken?!

dm says this

[   31.785274] device-mapper: table: 252:0: multipath: error getting device
[   31.869735] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
[   40.751675] device-mapper: table: 252:0: multipath: error getting device
[   40.845887] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
[   41.400427] device-mapper: table: 252:0: multipath: error getting device
[   41.535076] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table


fdisk does not see it either

$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdb: 73.0 GB, 72999763968 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8875 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001d510

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        8508    68340478+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            8509        8875     2947927+   5  Extended
/dev/sdb5            8509        8875     2947896   82  Linux swap / Solaris


diskstats only showing zeros for sda

   8      16 sdb 89933 2366 2289639 458150 4216664 19869512 193144976
923094710 0 19996710 924689040
   8      17 sdb1 89779 2105 2286343 457060 4216564 19867923 193131464
923090560 0 19995320 924683810
   8      18 sdb2 4 0 8 90 0 0 0 0 0 90 90
   8      21 sdb5 100 245 2760 360 100 1589 13512 4150 0 4150 4500
   8       0 sda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0


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Asif Iqbal
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