Re: PATA Problems

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:41:10 -0800, rsriprac wrote this:

Hello,

I have been having a problem with getting access to a drive I installed.
My motherboard is a Asus PC-DL Deluxe and it comes with an onboard Promise
378 RAID controller. I am not setting it to any RAID but just using it to
connect to additional hard drive.

The drive shows up fine under sda. I was able to partition it with fdisk:

Disk /dev/sda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track,
19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 19929 160079692 83 Linux

And I was successful in mounting it to /mnt/sda1. So I edited the
/etc/fstab file and added:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext3 defaults 0 0

After I rebooted the drive does not mount and I can not mount it manually:

$ sudo mount -v /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1/ -t ext3 mount: /dev/sda1 is not a
valid block device


Did you format the drive? mkfs.ext3 ?


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