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Can not mount SATA hard drives on Debian[etch]

From dmesg I get:

Code:

sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda

sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdb

sd 0:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdc

From lshw -C Disk I get:

Code:

*-disk:0

description: SCSI Disk

product: Flash HS-CF

vendor: Generic

physical id: 0.0.0

bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0

logical name: /dev/sda

version: 4.44

capabilities: removable

*-disc

physical id: 0

logical name: /dev/sda

*-disk:1

description: SCSI Disk

product: Flash HS-MS/SD

vendor: Generic

physical id: 0.0.1

bus info: scsi@0:0.0.1

logical name: /dev/sdb

version: 4.44

capabilities: removable

*-disc

physical id: 0

logical name: /dev/sdb

*-disk:2

description: SCSI Disk

product: Flash HS-SM

vendor: Generic

physical id: 0.0.2

bus info: scsi@0:0.0.2

logical name: /dev/sdc

version: 4.44

capabilities: removable

*-disc

physical id: 0

logical name: /dev/sdc

So the drives are there and connected.

And here is my fstab[the part for the SATA drives]:

Code:

/dev/sda      /mnt/E                ntfs    ro,user,noauto,umask=0222 0 0

/dev/sdb      /mnt/C                  ntfs    ro,user,noauto,umask=0222 0 0

/dev/sdc      /mnt/D                  ntfs    ro,user,noauto,umask=0222 0 0

After editing my fstab I did mount -a and even restarted the system but the drives do not get mounted.
The ntfs drivers are installed, I do not know where the problem could be.

you are literally trying to mount the drives and not the partitions on the drives.. I would think you would be mounting /dev/sda1 rather than /dev/sda This may be correct seeings how that is a flash card reader.

could you post the output of fdisk -l
(that is ' dash lowercase L')

That appears to be a multi flash card reader. Flash memory (USB, SD, MMC, XD, etc) are typically formatted as Fat32 not ntfs. You can not mount those drives unless there is a memory card inserted into the appropriate slot.

Code:

description: SCSI Disk

product: Flash HS-CF < - Compact Flash

vendor: Generic

physical id: 0.0.0

bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0

logical name: /dev/sda

version: 4.44

capabilities: removable

*-disc

physical id: 0

logical name: /dev/sda

*-disk:1

description: SCSI Disk

product: Flash HS-MS/SD   < - Memory Stick / SD Card

vendor: Generic

physical id: 0.0.1

bus info: scsi@0:0.0.1

logical name: /dev/sdb

version: 4.44

capabilities: removable

*-disc

physical id: 0

logical name: /dev/sdb

*-disk:2

description: SCSI Disk

product: Flash HS-SM     < - Smart Media 

vendor: Generic

physical id: 0.0.2

bus info: scsi@0:0.0.2

logical name: /dev/sdc

version: 4.44

capabilities: removable

*-disc

physical id: 0

logical name: /dev/sdc

Hope that helps clear things up a bit.