8.04 mounting second drive help

[jack wallen]

Jim Rosser wrote:
> I dont know if you want to try this but you can use a gui to mount 
> your drive.  Its called storage device manager under System Tools in 
> the application installer.  Once installed it is under System - 
> Administration. 
>
I fired that up. The device shows up as sdb but it has no partitions 
listed under it. For instance, sda has sda1 and sda5 under it. sdb, 
however, has nothing.


> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:12 PM, jack wallen <jlwallen at monkeypantz.net 
> <mailto:jlwallen at monkeypantz.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hello all.
>
>     I just did an update from 7.10 to 8.04. All went well with one
>     very important exception. I have a data drive that houses all of
>     my important data. In 7.10 it was /dev/hdb mounted on /data with
>     the command mount /dev/hdb1 /data. Now, obviously it is seen as
>     /dev/sdb. But if I try to mount the drive with the command sudo
>     mount /dev/sdb1 /data I am getting this error:
>
>     mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist
>
>     but if I look on gparted I can clearly see the device. Even in
>     dmesg I see:
>
>     [   32.115602] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 156301488 512-byte hardware
>     sectors (80026 MB)
>     [   32.115615] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
>     [   32.115618] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>     [   32.115635] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
>     enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
>     [   32.115682] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 156301488 512-byte hardware
>     sectors (80026 MB)
>     [   32.115691] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
>     [   32.115693] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>     [   32.115707] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
>     enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
>
>     So can someone please help me get this device mounted? I've tried
>     everything I can think of. It is pretty critical that I get it
>     mounted. My latest backup of the drive is about a week old and
>     that's not recent enough (I know - my mistake on that point.)
>
>     Thank you for any help you can give me.
>
>     -- 
>     jack wallen www.monkeypantz.net <http://www.monkeypantz.net>
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