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Old 09-04-2001, 09:35 AM   #1
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SCSI drive question


I have two scsi drives in my system....sda and sdb.....linux is installed on sda and windows 2k on sdb...when I'm in linux I'm trying to mount the windows drive. I've done the following:

mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows

"/dev/sdb1 not a valid block device."

Any ideas on what I need to do?
 
Old 09-04-2001, 01:22 PM   #2
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make sure that that is the right partition. use fdisk to print the partition table on the screen.

Might be useless.. i've no idea about SCSI really...
 
Old 09-05-2001, 09:17 AM   #3
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thanks...I think.....I know that sdb is one 16GB partition with my win2k on it and sda is my linux install....my linux install is currently booting up off of a floppy boot disk...windoze boots up automatically without the boot disk...I will fix that later...I just don't understand why linux isn't seeing my second disk at all...anyone else have any ideas on how to try and mount a second SCSI disk (sdb) that is only one big 16GB NTFS partition????
 
Old 09-05-2001, 11:11 AM   #4
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In what way doesbn't it see it? as in not in fdisk? or just not installed in /etc/fstab?

There's plenty plenty issues about mounting NTFS and I only know they exist, not what they actually are, sorry. I think one is that many kernels aren't compiled with ntfs support on them, which seems very very daft.
 
Old 09-05-2001, 12:25 PM   #5
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The second SCSI HD doesn't get recognized at all. Not in fdisk and not in /etc/fstab.....
 
Old 09-05-2001, 12:50 PM   #6
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hmm, well if windows can use it ok, i'm totally stuffed. A Kernel compilation issue? i really don't know.. let's hope someone clever says something....
 
  


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