tony@ajfcal.uucp (Tony Field) (02/14/91)
I have just installed Interactive's VPIX on my system - two hard disks running off of an rll controller. The unix partition on the second hard drive is number 7 (i.e. fstab contains /dev/dsk/1s7). After VPIX was installed and tested. I powered down the system. When the system came up again, the second hard drive was no longer available. In fact, the partition table was unreadable - the disk had to be reinstalled. Is there a problem with vpix on a second hard drive, did I miss reading the fine print in the manual - or is my text editor defective? tony.... ( uucp: tony@ajfcal ...uunet!keyword!calgary!ajfcal!tony ) ( internet: tony%ajfcal@cpsc.ucalgary.ca )
news@to.rushpc (Usenet news administrator) (02/21/91)
In article <1991Feb20.060712.27767@ddsw1.MCS.COM> nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn) writes: >In article <1991Feb14.055359.6678@ajfcal.uucp> tony@ajfcal.uucp (Tony Field) writes: >>I have just installed Interactive's VPIX on my system - two hard disks >>running off of an rll controller. The unix partition on the second hard >>drive is number 7 (i.e. fstab contains /dev/dsk/1s7). >> >>After VPIX was installed and tested. I powered down the system. When the >>system came up again, the second hard drive was no longer available. In >>fact, the partition table was unreadable - the disk had to be reinstalled. >> >>Is there a problem with vpix on a second hard drive, did I miss reading >>the fine print in the manual - or is my text editor defective? > >There's no inherent problem: I've run vpix without difficulty >in a multi-drive and even multi-controller setting. (RLL + SCSI) > I had the same trouble with my system. I have a Compuadd 386-20 with 2 IDE Hard drives and I'm running AT&T SVR3.2. After installing the 2nd drive I rebooted the system. The filesystem I assigned to the 2nd drive failed to mount. Upon investigation, I found that /etc/mnttab was completely missing. I created /etc/mnttab with vi and edited in the necessary info to mount the filesystem on drive 2. I have had no further problems booting the machine. Later I found the original /etc/mnttab under /lost+found. The file was corrupted but I was able to tell that it once was /etc/mnttab. John Rushford