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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

Recognizing hard disk

Hi all, trying to read/write from a hard disk, with CycloneII Nios Kit and Nios II uClinux when I try to mount the hard disk I get the error: mount: /dev/hda is not a valid block device ...
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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

Try doing fdisk /dev/hda and see what you can get. Can it read the hard drive and it's partitions that way? If it can, I would say your hardware is good... just have to check the device nodes to make sure they are generated correctly.