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Distribution: Red Hat 9.0/ Debian/ Solaris 9 (just trying out)
Posts: 27
Rep:
Adding a hard drive
I'm trying to add a hard drive to my Red Hat 7.3 system. It is on the second IDE channel, and I used to have a CD writer there before that has been removed. The CD recorder worked fine; and now it is having trouble with the hard drive. When I type "dring", it says "hdc:driver not present". Any thoughts on to make it work?
Distribution: Red Hat 9.0/ Debian/ Solaris 9 (just trying out)
Posts: 27
Original Poster
Rep:
OK that part works- I was able to partition it and format it, but when I mount it it says read only filesystem, and it's full? I tried to change the permissions as root, and it could not do it. Now what am I doing wrong?
Distribution: Red Hat 9.0/ Debian/ Solaris 9 (just trying out)
Posts: 27
Original Poster
Rep:
OK I used fdisk to patition the drive- one partition, hdc1. Then I formatted using mkfs, as ext2 filesystem. I then tried to mount it under the mount directory, which went well, but when I use df it says that hdc1 is full, and when I look at mtab, it says that the filesystem is vfat. Is the system still looking at it like it's a CD-ROM, causing it to say it is full and read only?
Distribution: Red Hat 9.0/ Debian/ Solaris 9 (just trying out)
Posts: 27
Original Poster
Rep:
OK well then I might start from scatch now- when I tried what you said, I got the reply:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1, or too many mounted filesystems.
Then, trying to mount as I did before:
/dev/hdc1: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
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