Hi Ender, Thanks for looking into it and for your help. I am hereby enclosing the output of dmesg along with this mail. hdc(samsung ide) is the one i want to retrieve data from. thanks and regards, Pankaj Agarwal ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Martínez Moreno" To: "Pankaj Agarwal" Cc: ; Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:00 AM Subject: Re: Help Root Raid -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El Sábado, 21 de Agosto de 2004 18:37, Pankaj Agarwal escribió: > Hi Ender, > > this isn't the case...however i tried by changing the 83 to FD but it > doesn't worked. > > its already enabled and the kernel is reading these partitions as well....i > guess because of these messages during bootup and shutdown.... > > Part of BOOTUP message ... > " > autodetecting Raid Arrays > autorun... > ...autorun DONE > " > > Part of shutdown message .... > " > md recovery thread got woken > md recovery thread finished > mdrecoveryd(7) flushing signals > Stopping all md devices. > " > Hope it helps you in helping me further. Hello, Pankaj. Could you please send us a copy of your dmesg output? That is the first thing you must do in order to diagnose problems. Thanks, Ender. - -- Network engineer Debian Developer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLSEfWs/EhA1iABsRAnHKAJwPuiNFYCncG6mfpGfkZcbg6Ug2OwCdFVS9 hNfF9qkIkYyZsXIvfOibUWA= =l9uK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----