Can't mount my SATA drive

[Ed Fletcher]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Running Breezy - up to date. Freshly installed (yet again!). I have an
> ATA HDD with most of my stuff on, recently I installed a SATA drive, and
> after a bit of fiddling in BIOS ubuntu saw it and all was good. But now
> after reinstalling Ubuntu - it's gone! gparted can't see it either.
> 
> Device manager can see it:
> 
> 
>>82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller
> 
> 	SCSI Host Adapter
> 	SCSI Host Adapter
> 
> I've added a few things into fstab, hoping it would help - it hasn't.
> # SATA drive(s) (sda)
> /dev/sda1	/media/sda1	ext3	defaults	0	0
> /dev/sda2	/media/sda2	ext3	defaults	0	0
> /dev/sda3	/media/sda2	ext3	defaults	0	0
> /dev/sda4	/media/sda3	ext3	defaults	0	0
> /dev/sdb1	/media/sdb1	ext3	defaults	0	0
> /dev/sdb2	/media/sdb2	ext3	defaults	0	0
> /dev/sdb3	/media/sdb3	ext3	defaults	0	0
> /dev/sdb4	/media/sdb4	ext3	defaults	0	0
> 
> When I run mount all I get
> $ sudo mount -a
> mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
> mount: special device /dev/sda2 does not exist
> mount: special device /dev/sda3 does not exist
> mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist
> mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist
> mount: special device /dev/sdb2 does not exist
> mount: special device /dev/sdb3 does not exist
> mount: special device /dev/sdb4 does not exist
> 
> So, what am I getting wrong - it was working the other day.
> 
> Duncan

Run 'sudo fdisk -l' to make sure that linux can see the drive and what
device it is.  Try mounting that manually.

Ed
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