On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Joshua b. Jore wrote: > Brian, > You've been attacking the wrong problem. While the error message stated > something about the wrong major number that isn't really the problem. Your > /dev/hda1 is perfectly fine and ought to be left alone. What *would* help > is if you described what /dev/hda is, how it is partitioned /dev/hda is my sole 30GB ATA-1000 drive it's carved up something like this: /dev/hda1 4GB Windows partition /dev/hda2 250MB swap /dev/hda3 1.5GB / /dev/hda4 extended /dev/hda5 10GB /usr /dev/hda6 12GB /home and the > relevant section from your dmesg. You also mentioned something about USB. I don't have the dmesg handy, I'll post it when I can get to it. > I think the problem is either hardware being identified improperly or your > drivers are somehow wierd. The info I asked for should have some clues as > to what the real problem is. As another poster suggested, is it possible I left out some ATA driver in the kernel config? I don't recall ever having trouble with this drive so I'm guessing there's no custom patches or anything that need to be loaded. -Brian