On Wednesday 15 April 2015 13:37:43 Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > I think I'll burn that cd of the seagate dos utils and see what it > says, which will entail a power down reboot if I put it on the spare > cables, or something along those lines that will force me to do a P.D. > reboot. Uptime is currently about 12 days. And we have at least 10 > days before Jessie is declared, so I haven't been in a life or death > hurry. Since I woke up this morning, which is a good sign at my age, > I'll put that off a few hours. ;-) > I finally found enough of a round tuit to burn the cd and try it. Seatools found and tested all 3 drives, no hits no runs no errors.
But I am now smarter on two fronts. 1. DON"T leave your cell phone plugged in when rebooting, you get drive C has no boot capability messages from the bios, while I am shaking my head and muttering that famous 3 letter acronym. So I wasted several hours letting it go thru one cycle of memtest, then doing a bios reset & re-putz with some on the options before in dawned on me my tracfone is still plugged in AND a POS. Turned off, it still shows up as a 50 megabyte removeable disk! Unforgivable idiocy. 2. that solved & rebooted, with one of the 2T's in the sdb slot, gparted said it had NO partition table! So I expect the 2nd one has no partition table on it either. So I partitioned and labeled it half & half as /home and /opt. Reboot, lshw and blkid are now happy as clams. So, progress from the WV version of Lake Woebegone. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201504152354.52177.ghesk...@wdtv.com
