Knoppix loads runs but can't detect hard drive - Newbie help

[randygva]

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop - I'm able to load knoppix - fully - but it doesn;t recognize my hard disk.

I can run partition commander and see the drive - including using its browser to see each of the NTFS folders, filenames , dates and sizes. All looks ok there.

I'm a total newbie to Linux/knoppix - it was amazing to see it autoload to the point I'm on the internet now on my laptop from knoppix - but minus my hard drive.

from the command fdisk -l I do not see anything that says NTFS.

A couple of times when I've been exiting knoppix, the (alomost) last message says - hda : lost interupt.

Any suggestions?? please be as specific as possible as I'm not familiar with the commands.

As requested, here is the info from the lspci -v command:

thanks!! Randy

knoppix@ttyp1[knoppix]$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1644/M1644T Northbridge+Trident (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: f7f00000-fdffffff

00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f7eff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3) (prog-if f0)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at eff0 [size=16]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0004
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:08.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: medium devsel

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0d)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems 8255x-based Ethernet Adapter (10/100)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f7efe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at ef40 [size=64]
Memory at f7ec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:11.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

00:11.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 10002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
Memory window 0: 10c00000-10fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 11000000-113ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 8, IRQ 11
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at fbc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at f7ff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

log off

[rickenbacherus]

Did you try fdisk -l /dev/hda

Also since Knoppix automatically creates mount points for any partitions it sees you could do

ls -l /mnt