CaptainAnarchy Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Linux Ubuntu displays my hard drives as removable devices and won't let me access them because they aren't it doesn't make sense to me it wants them to be some thing and gets mad cause there not. Ubuntu is such a woman. any ideas they're ide drives not ata so I don't know what its thinking.(maybe I need a relationship councilor) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mubix Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Linux Ubuntu displays my hard drives as removable devices and won't let me access them because they aren't it doesn't make sense to me it wants them to be some thing and gets mad cause there not. Ubuntu is such a woman. any ideas they're ide drives not ata so I don't know what its thinking.(maybe I need a relationship councilor) What are the device paths? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainAnarchy Posted January 24, 2007 Author Share Posted January 24, 2007 computer:/// and it called it the 9.5 GB Volume its my old box i've never used linux before so i put it on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 open a terminal and type: cd /dev/ ls and paste the out put here, do the same (as in paste here) for cat /etc/fstab That should give us a clue as to what's going on ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainAnarchy Posted January 24, 2007 Author Share Posted January 24, 2007 nevermind I just had to format the drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mubix Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 well that was a bit extreme..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainAnarchy Posted January 25, 2007 Author Share Posted January 25, 2007 oh its ok it was blank I didn't put any thing on it yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mubix Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 oh its ok it was blank I didn't put any thing on it yet Still, you would have learned more by trouble shooting it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 the old PEBKAC issue lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mubix Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 the old PEBKAC issue lol shhh.. don't talk about PEBKAC, that is a secret Dev.5 project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychokiller Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 this used to happen with me while i was using Ubuntu as Live CD not Installed on the HDD. But it all solved when i installed it :D:D dunno the reason yyy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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