Can not access my slave drive...Need help!

[Larry Shields]

Neil wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:
>   
>> *As of this morning I no-longer can access my slave drive, which has
>> ubuntu 8.04 on it...
>>
>> Upon booting up, I use the arrow key to move down to my second drive,
>> hit enter it then tells me Error 22: No such partition and no format
>> arguments...
>>
>> I then tried Knoppix 5.1 to see if it would access the slave drive, what
>> it told me as could not mount device...
>>
>> The reported error was:
>> mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified...
>>
>> Can anyone help me out as to what I may need to do, to be able to once
>> again access the slave drive, without loosing what I have on it...
>>
>> Thanks in advance Larry
>> *
>>     
>
> Hi
>
> First: do you have a backup?
> Can you please post the error message that says you can't mount it?
> Can you SMART test it using Knoppix?
> Have you checked the cable? (I have seen someone with an inexplicable
> hole in an IDE cable, in a PC that hasn't been open for a year. He
> hasn't been able to tell me how it happend)
>
> Hope I can help
>
> Neil
>
>
>
>
>   
Hello Neil,

Know I do not have a backup...

When trying to use the command mount, it  says can't find /dev/sdb in 
/etc/fstab, thats all...

Now how do you SMART TEST it using Knoppix...???

Larry

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