During boot

Checking filesystem
fsck.ext3Possible non-existent or swap device ?
: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hdb1


here is the fstab

labe=/ / ext defaults 1 1
lable=/boot / /boot ext3 defaults 12
none dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
lable=/home /home /ext3 defaults 12
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 00
Lable=usr /usr ext3 defaults 12
/dev/hdb1 /usr/Shared exr3 defaults 12
labe=/var /var ext3 defaults 12
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 00
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto/owner/kudz/ro 0
0
/dev/fdo /mnt/floppy aut noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0



the one that went down is all the sama shared files and there is about 10gigs there


any thoughts on how to recover the information ?

Is hdb still visible from BIOS, does 'fdisk -l' know about it?


Cheers,
Tink

only shows hda enterys

That probably means that the second hard-disk died, which makes
being unable to mount it fair enough.


Cheers,
Tink

so all the info is basicly destroyed ?

I don't know - you didn't really say whether the BIOS still
can see the device; it's also possible that just the cable
came loose, or that the contacts are corroded.
Remedy might be easy.

But it's something that you may have to expect (e.g. if the
electronics burnt out, or the head(s) crashed on the surface
of the platters). In either case a (highly expensive) specialist
service may be able to recover the data. But it's another good
time to point out the importance of back-ups.


Cheers,
Tink