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

[Justin]

It can't find /dev/sdb1 in fstab because that's a device, not a partition.
Your partition would be something like /dev/sdb1. If it's still not in
fstab, you can specify a location with: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1. You may
have to create /mnt/sdb1

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net>wrote:

> 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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