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

[Justin]

It almost seems as if there's no partition data on it. Does /dev/sdb1 exist
on the fs? If not, try something like gpart (not gparted) to recover the
partition table. It may also be indicative of a failing HDD. Test it with
the utility of your choice.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Justin <eqisow at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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