Current system has 2 hard drives. Recently had to rebuild my boot disk. and left my data disk alone.

Rebuilt the /dev/hda disk and that is all will and good
the /dev/hdb1 (/data) disk is now giving me problems

mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /data
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
or too many mounted file systems


I look at fdisk -l
fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3328 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 3198 25583512+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3199 3328 1044225 82 Linux swap

Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 1027 8249346 83 Linux

and the fstab entry is
/dev/hdb1 /data ext3 defaults 1 1


Any hints on how to bring /dev/hdb1 back on line?

"Any hints on how to bring /dev/hdb1 back on line?"

You could take a look at the first superblock to see if anything looks suspicious:
tune2fs -l /dev/hdb1

See:
man tune2fs

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