Weird mount problem

[Philippe Landau]

rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> Why hdb2? Have you tried hdb0, hdb1, ...?
> 
> Have you tried creating your own mnt, mkdir ~/mnt, then mounting it
> there? That would eliminate the question of /mnt being busy.
> 
> I assume the drive is mounted as a slave on the same channel as hda?
> 
> Does the drive power up? Can you see any lights or hear it spinning.
> 
> Sorry, I know a lot of these things are pretty obvious but I'm just
> trying to cover everything I can think of.  :)

hello Russ

can you think of a reason why there is no linux gui utility
for mounting drives,
this seems something pretty basic and simple, right ?

kind regards     philippe