I was not having this particular problem, but I had two 300Gb drives that i
was using as a raid 1 mirror setup. I decommissioned that computer and
tried to repurpose the disks. it seemed they still had some affinity for
the raid setup, and I was getting a lot of strange errors.
I can't find my notes on the exact situation, but, I believe I had to reset
up the raid 1 and delete the array that way. I know I reformatted and may
have tried deleting the partition table and starting over from scratch.
Steve
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:28 AM, <
joe@actionline.com> wrote:
> .
> There are two identical 300-gig hard disks on my computer;
> but only one is accessible. When I do 'df' I see only this:
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb5 7.7G 3.5G 3.9G 48% /
> /dev/sdb7 138G 9.5G 129G 7% /home
>
> Hardware detection shows two hard disks: sda and sdb:
>
> #1 ‎ATA MAXTOR STM332062
> Old device file: ‎/dev/sda
> Partitions Primary partitions: ‎1 (sda1)
> Misc Geometry: ‎38913/255/63 (CHS)
> Disk controller: ‎0 -- Module: ‎sata_nv
>
> #2 ‎ATA MAXTOR STM332062
> Old device file: ‎/dev/sdb
> Partitions Primary partitions: ‎1 (sdb1)
> Extended partitions: ‎3 (sdb5, sdb6, sdb7)
> Misc Geometry: ‎38913/255/63 (CHS)
> Disk controller: ‎1 -- Module: ‎sata_nv
>
> When I tried to use 'gparted', I see this error:
>
> error: libhal_acquire_global_interface_lock:
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.InterfaceAlreadyLocked:
> The interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage is already
> exclusively locked either by someone else or by yourself
>
> So, I booted "Part Magic" Linux live CD and screen captured
> the contents of the two hard disks as shown at these links:
>
> http://upquick.com/temp/gparted1.png
> http://upquick.com/temp/sda.sdb.png
>
> I want to use the second hard disk to backup all my files
> on the first hard disk.
>
> What do I need to do to get the second hard disk unlocked
> and mounted so I can copy all my files onto it?
>
>
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