Hi, i am trying to mount, my second harddrive - Western Digital 80G with 8mb buffer ram. But everytime i do so, i get get the "/dev/hdc1 is not a valid block". This is what i am typing in the console: mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows/e . And yes i know it's hdc1, and FAT32 fs. I always sort of had problem with this drive, like even in Red Hat 9 sometimes it would work, but most of the other time it would work.
I am trying to auto-mount it also, and this is what i have in my etc/fstab:
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows/e vfat defaults 0 0

Any suggestions?

Also in IceWM there is no Desktop icon. I have looked through the manual but couldn't locate anyway. I tired placing some links on /root/Desktop , but had no effect at all.

MR

Run this as root:

# fdisk -l /dev/hdc

and post the printout. It should list all the partitions recognized by your system on hdc.

Hi, kilgoretrout i don't get any out on the screen at all. It doesn't seem to recognise it. But during installation it did show up, in the partition thing.

MR

Check your bios setup and make sure the drive is properly detected by the bios. Are you sure the drive is properly jumpered? Check your WD documentation on that.

My WD configuration is fine. I have Windows 2000 as well, and i never had any problem with it. Although keep in mind both Windows 2000 and linux are install on the other HD which is a 10GB. But everything seems to work fine in Win2k. Also it worked fine in Red Hat 9 as well.

MR