Having problems mounting a Hard drive w/ enclosure

pureevil4 · 04-07-2006, 02:19 PM

Hi,
I have a Vantec NexStar 3 enclosure for a 320 GB Western Digital IDE hard drive. I have set the jumper setting to Master as the manual for the NexStar 3 said. I have SCSI and USB storage enabled.

I was able to get a 50 gb ext2 partition mounted once, but I haven't be able to mount any other partitions, even with the same exact settings as before.

Here is the info from when I was able to get a partition mounted:

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dmesg:
usb 1-3.2: new high speed USB device using address 7
scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: WDC WD32  Model: 00JB-00KFA0       Rev: 0000
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdb: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 7

/proc/scsi/scsi:
Host: scsi5 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: WDC WD32 Model: 00JB-00KFA0      Rev: 0000
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02

fdisk:
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
239 heads, 63 sectors/track, 41518 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15057 * 512 = 7709184 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        7000    52699468+  83  Linux


could mount sdb1

After it worked, I deleted that 50~ GB partition and made a partition with the maximum size, with the same settings and I got this error:

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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       or too many mounted file systems
dmesg says:
EXT2-fs: corrupt root inode, run e2fsck

e2fsck: everything was clean.

I unplugged the enclosure for a few minutes, and I noticed a differnce after I plugged it in:

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/proc/scsi/scsi:
Host: scsi6 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: GDC GD#2 Model:  0JB-0 KFA       Rev: 0000
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02

The Vendor and Model info is different from before.

I partitioned the table exactly like it was when it worked:

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fdisk:
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
239 heads, 63 sectors/track, 41518 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15057 * 512 = 7709184 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        7000    52699468+  83  Linux

And I recieved the same:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
or too many mounted file systems

The command I used to mount is:

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mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbarchive -t ext2

I formatted the partition with:

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mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1

Any ideas?

Thanks!

edit:
here is the output for uname -a:

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Linux 2.6.9-1.667smp #1 SMP Tue Nov 2 15:09:11 EST 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux