When I originally installed RedHat linux a couple days ago, somehow, my slave HD, which I intend to use for backup, had a linux swap partition on it. Don't know how this happened. So, today, I used System Commander to convert that partition to regular linux .
The reason I tried this is that I have been trying to do a backup, and have not been able to mount the drive, whether it was swap or regular.

Heres what I get whether the partition is swap or regular:
Questions: [list=1][*]How do I set up linux to recognize that the partition on my slave HD is a regular partition?[*]What is causing the error such that I cannot mount my slave drive regular partition?[/list=1]

In your mount command, you didn't specify the partition number. It can't mount ' hdf '.

Fixed the command, but got the same results.

Is there a configuration file or startup script that I have to be concerned with?

I am working from memory now, since I am in windows. I edited my /etc/fstab file and really got fouled up. I added an entry, I think it went like this:

After that, I was unable to boot linux. Rescue mode didn't work either. So I had to reinstall linux (that's the only thing I know how to do at this point)

Gawd this system is complicated!