Solved-Cannot Access Data Storage Drives

[muungwana]

congratulations for hanging on and see this through.

PCC(pclinuxos control center) is pretty deep,It will allow you to click through to change almost anything in your system. Hanging around there and look around is the best place to familiarize yourself with pclinuxos.

Since the problem is solved, go to the first post, click "edit" and then add "solved" to the title of the thread.

[jimwilk]

jdm79,

Congratulations on your tenacity and on solving the problem. A warm welcome to you, from New Zealand.

I was going to point you in the direction that you eventually used, with expert help from muungwana (using PCC and toggling to Expert mode to tick the User.) But, I wouldn't have been able to assist with the non showing of a partition.

When I first started to use this distro seriously, I found difficulty in getting access to data partitions too. It took a fair amount of head scratching before I found the same method here in the forums.

Now, sit back and enjoy the power of your FM version.

Jim

[Just17]

i ended up physically removing the offending drive (sdd) & rebooting. after rebooting, the "sdc" tab in the disk manager returned. also, the configurations that i made earlier were still in effect. there were entries in the /media directory as well. all i had to do was change the user permmissions.

thanks for the help y'all. i guess hdd was bad enough to cause this problem

I am glad to see that you have a solution 

I wonder if sdd is actually 'bad' or if there is something about its settings that caused the events.
As I said above, I know little of LVM, RAID etc, but it sure looked from the results posted that there was a disk settings problem.
I wouldn't be inclined to discard the disk without further checking