[OT]Internal SCSI HD partitions and Panther...
[OT]Internal SCSI HD partitions and Panther...
- Subject: [OT]Internal SCSI HD partitions and Panther...
- From: Serge Cohen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:26:12 +0100
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Hi List;
Sorry for the Of Toppic question, but I've been browsing the web for
list/answer to the coming question without any insight of a possible
solution....
So I though I give this list a try, as I guess I'm not the first one to
experience this kind of troubles.
Here Comes the question:
I have a dual G4 with a SCSI main harddisk (and a second harddisk on
internal IDE).
I partitioned the disk in 3 volumes :
1. System
2. Users data (mounted as /Users in the fstab)
3. Scratch.
installed 10.3 on partition 1. and mount partition 2 at /Users.
Whenever I log in as a normal user (not root), the finder firesup, but
then hang (the longest I've waited was 20min, before restarting the
machine).
If I log as root (with home dir on the system partition), it is then
running Ok; then by doing a ls -l on /users I can observe that the
partition 2 (/Users) does not retain owner (both uid and gid) for files
(which I guess is the reason why the finder is unhappy with a home
directory on the /Users partition).
Details:
I was running it on 10.2, with 3 same partitions. It was working
without any troubles.
I upgraded it to 10.3, with reformating the system partition
(installation from empty disk).
The installation is Ok, system is working...
When I log in as root, the finder works OK, I can see that partitions 2
and 3 of the SCSI disk are marked as removable media (small eject logo
on the right of the left column).
I think the problems come inderectly from the status of the disk:
because it is marked as removable, the user/group of the files (from
the info stored on the disk) are not taken into account but replaced by
the current logged in user and 'unknown' (for the group)... hence
generating problem with the finder when it tries to get its
preference...
I've tried the few thing I've found on the web, like setting the
autodiskmount to mount even without user logged in
(
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031103155828117).
I've tried as well to play with a AUTODISKMOUNT variable in
/etc/hostconfig, but as this variable is used nowhere in /etc or
/System/Library/StartupItems I don't think it has any use in panther
(also because I have the impression from what I've read on the web that
autodiskmount has been 'replaced' by diskarbitration...), hoping to be
able to tell the system that the SCSI mounted disk is NOT removable.
Maybe I got a completely wrong understanding of what's the problem, in
which case I hope someone here can put me back in the right direction.
Or maybe I'm in the right direction but I'm missing the knowledge to
actually solve the problem...
In any case, any insight on this matter is very welcomed!
Thanks in advance.
Serge.
PS: The documentation on autodiskmount (outdated?) and diskarbitrationd
are very scarce, so I'd be happy if anyone has a good pointer on these
subjects...
PPS: I've posted this question few days ago on another MacOSX mailing
list, but I've not received answers yet... That's why I decided I'll do
some cross post, sorry for that.
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