help needed with /etc/fstab

[Wolfgang]

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> Did you partition the drive and format it with ext3?
> 
> /dev/sda is the _whole_ drive.
> after partitioning you should have /dev/sda1 -> 1. partition on drive sda.
> 

yes I used the whole disk (it is intended only to take data (probably it 
would have been better to create a partition table, but yesterday I did 
  the formatting a bit too fast.

But finally I found the problem: there was a typo in the mount path! So 
every thing is fine now!

Thanks a lot
Wolfgang