Re: troubleshooting ls120 mount problems

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

ChadDavis wrote:
> I need some advice in troubleshooting mount problems.  I've got al ls120 
> superdisk that I'm trying to mount.  I've installed it as the secondary 
> device on my main ide channel, behind the boot hard drive. 
>
> Here's what I've got in my fstab:
>
> /dev/hdb       /media/ls120     vfat    rw,user,noauto  0       0
>
> And when I try to mount, with
>
> mount /media/ls120
>
> I get:
>
> mount: special device /dev/hdb does not exist
>
> So, I'm thinking the drive might be dead?  Or not being recognized? 
>
> How do you troubleshoot such a thing?
>
> Thanks for your help.


/dev/hdb is the whole disk I doubt you want to mount it like this.

#dmesg | grep hdb should give you some idea whether its seen

#cfdisk /dev/hdb will tell you about the partitions.

I suspect you need to change the 'hdb' in fstab to 'hdb1' if you only 
have one big partition on the disk.

HTH

Wackojacko