mounting problems "hdb : driver not present"
 

I used to mount my other hard disk (hdb) by editing /etc/fstab.

It used to work for me with my previous installations of redhat 9.

Now I'm having a problem mounting my other hard drive. Upon booting, the error message is "hdb: driver not present" ....


I need help on this... so please...if anyone can.. You're assistance is highly appreciated

by the way.. I used to insert these lines to /etc/fstab

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/disk2 vfat auto,owner 0 0

.. please help

It is possible that your kernel does not have support for vfat. To see if this is the case, invoke:
cat /proc/filesystems

If vfat is not listed, then you will need to recompile your kernel to mount your vfat filesystem.

Mounthing HDB
 

hello

mounting an external hard drive is simple fisrt check is it hdb1 or hdb2 or wat so ever

for check this u can check it n Hardware Browser

or by using command

[root @localhost root] df
(i think it shows the harddrive)


OK im assuming that my harddrive is hdb2

now you dont have to edit /etc/fstab because it sometime gets critical to edit the fstab simple command is

[root@localhost root] mount /dev/hdb1 /home/data

where "/home/data" is the destination folder where it wouold mount the file of other harddisk

do tell me if it works

regards
hasnain