issues with mounting ATA/IDE disk in modular bay - ubuntu 6.10 Edgy

[Jeff.Hodges at KingsMountain.com]

Hi, 

I'm running ubuntu 6.10 Edgy on a Dell d820. I've mounted a hitachi travelstar 
ATA/IDE disk (NTFS filesystem, my old winXP system disk) in a modular disk 
caddy, popped out the dvd drive, and stuck in the disk caddy.

the disk I placed in the caddy is known-good, i'd had it hooked up via an 
external USB enclosure, whereupon it was recognized automagically and mounted 
as "/dev/sdb1". but i need to copy mega gigabytes of stuff off of it, so i 
thought mounting it internally will yield better xfer rates (i have to copy a 
bunch of stuff into a winXP virt machine, and vmware 5.5 as yet only supports 
usb 1.1).

plus, i have another disk I'll eventually want to mount in this way (in 
modular bay) more or less permanently as a 2nd hard drive, so i need to figger 
this out.

I'd tried figuring out if I needed to do anything special before removing the 
dvd drive, but couldn't find anything, and with no disc in it, umount didn't 
want to do anything, so i just took it out.

upon insertion of the hard drive caddy, I get these messages continuously in 
the system log...
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[17194717.584000] sr 1:0:0:0: ioctl_internal_command return code = 8000002
[17194717.584000]    : Current [descriptor]: sense key: Aborted Command
[17194717.584000]     Additional sense: No additional sense information
[17194719.160000] usb 4-1: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and 
address 12
[17194719.600000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.600000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.600000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.600000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.600000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.604000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.604000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.604000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.604000] sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: <6>Test Unit Ready 00 00 
00 00 00 00
[17194719.604000] sr: Current [descriptor]: sense key: Aborted Command
[17194719.604000]     Additional sense: No additional sense information
[17194719.604000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.604000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.604000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.604000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.604000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.604000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
0xb/00/00
[17194719.604000] sr 1:0:0:0: ioctl_internal_command return code = 8000002
                                  .
                                  .
                                  .


I attempted to mount the disk in various ways, partially to see what device it 
is mapped to...

 
# mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/oldc
mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist

# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda0 /media/oldc
mount: special device /dev/hda0 does not exist

# mount -t ntfs /dev/sda2 /media/oldc
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
       missing codepage or other error
       (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
       instead of some logical partition inside?)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so


So, does the above hint that it is /dev/sda2 ?  My ubuntu system disk is 
/dev/sda1 fwiw (and also a hitachi travelstar AFAIK).


Any help will be appreciated, thanks,


=JeffH