not seeing the second disk

[Asif Iqbal]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Robert Freeman-Day <presgas at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Asif Iqbal wrote:
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>> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:35:47 -0400
>> From: Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com>
>> To: ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: not seeing the second disk
>>
>> 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
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>>
>> 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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>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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> Asif,
>
> Love the signature!
>
> I would say it is likely it is dead, but something to confirm would be to
> look at the output of "dmesg".  There is also a logfile with similar data
> called "/var/log/dmesg".  Otherwise, you could see if it is OS related by

here is the dmesg -> http://pastebin.com/K6ahyRZH

> trying out a live CD...see if that OS can work with the drive.>
>

I guess I will try that as well.

Thanks

> - ---Robert Freeman-Day
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Asif Iqbal
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?