I'm having trouble adding a third SATA disk. I have 2 250 Gb SATA drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb). I added a 160 Gb drive and both fdisk and the Mandriva control panel correctly recognize it as /dev/sdc. The disk is OK (checked in a different computer).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 26 19457 156087540 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdc5 26 1554 12281661 83 Linux /dev/sdc6 1555 1808 2040223+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdc7 1809 4357 20474811 83 Linux /dev/sdc8 4358 6906 20474811 83 Linux /dev/sdc9 6907 8180 10233373+ 83 Linux << snip snip>> When I try to mount one of the /dev/sdc partitions from the control panel, I get: mounting partition /dev/sdc9 in directory /c9 failed. And when I try to mount from the command line I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# mount /c9 mount: /dev/sdc9 already mounted or /c9 busy Here's the relevant part of /etc/fstab (I've included part of the lines relating to /dev/sda and /dev/sdb for comparison). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/fstab ## sda /dev/sda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1 /dev/sda6 /boot reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/sda7 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/sda8 /tmp reiserfs notail 1 2 << snip snip >> ## sdb /dev/sdb1 /3200-g1 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdb5 /3200-g2 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdb6 /3200-g3 reiserfs defaults 1 2 << snip snip >> ## sdc /dev/sdc5 /c5 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc7 /c7 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc8 /c8 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc9 /c9 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc10 /c10 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc11 /c11 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc12 /c12 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc13 /c13 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc14 /c14 reiserfs defaults 1 2 Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail (KDE 3.5.4) on LINUX Mandriva 2007 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
