i just plugged a HD, unfortunately, i was not able to mount it.. hmm..

kublador · 09-14-2003, 02:20 PM

i just plugged in a harddisk, it is in SECONDARY SLAVE, therefore it is hdd right? and not hda, hdb nor hdc...
i am also sure that it is hdd because when my REDHAT 8 boots, i saw a line there stating:

hda ST234234
hdd ST234545

something like that.. the harddisk that i plugged has one partition and it is in NTFS, i am on KDE and installed the RPM that allows my RH8 to mount NTFS partitions, i followed all the instructions properly, but when i tried to mount that hdd with:
mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd -t ntfs
it says invalid block device.. i tried mounting an NTFS partition before, so i am sure that there is no problem with the NTFS RPM.
what is the matter?
i also run the HARDWARE BROWSER and only the HDA is there, the HDD is not there...
can someone help me?
thank you very much..

fancypiper · 09-14-2003, 02:33 PM

Post the output of this command:

fdisk -l /dev/hdd

Mara · 09-14-2003, 02:35 PM

Using 'fdisk -l /dev/hdd', you'll get a list of partitions on /dev/hdd. When you have it, mount it.

kublador · 09-14-2003, 11:44 PM

ah yes.. i also tried that... but mine was fdisk /dev/hdd
and it says that that device is not present or something like that.
ill also try that later... thanks

fancypiper · 09-15-2003, 12:00 AM

You may have to set it in your BIOS.