I bought a Western Digital 80GB Hard Disk as a second disk for my GNU/Linux Debian system (kernel 2.6.8-2-386).
I attached it as a Slave and set its jumper accordingly. The next step was to create partition, and I created one by running (under root of course) 'fdisk /dev/hdb' and using the command new (n) to create a primary partition with partition number 1 for which I only used 12GB (of 80GB available). Also with command 't' I made sure the filesystem is ext3 (code 83). I created a directory /music on which I plan to mount this filesystem. Then I went to change my fstab file which now looks like this: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda2 /localdisk ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /music ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,users,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,users,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/sda /media/usb0 auto rw,users,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/usb1 vfat rw,users,noauto 0 0 shmfs /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0 I restarted my system and the filesystem was not mounted. Here's my syslog: kernel: klogd 1.4.1#17, log source = /proc/kmsg started. kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.8-2-386 kernel: Loaded 28182 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.8-2-386. kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.8. kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. kernel: Linux version 2.6.8-2-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)) #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000bffc000 (usable) kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000bffc000 - 000000000bfff000 (ACPI data) kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000bfff000 - 000000000c000000 (ACPI NVS) kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) kernel: 191MB LOWMEM available. kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 49148 kernel: DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 kernel: Normal zone: 45052 pages, LIFO batch:10 kernel: HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 kernel: DMI 2.3 present. kernel: ACPI disabled because your bios is from 2000 and too old kernel: You can enable it with acpi=force kernel: Built 1 zonelists kernel: Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro kernel: Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. kernel: Found and enabled local APIC! kernel: Initializing CPU#0 kernel: PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes) kernel: Detected 604.287 MHz processor. kernel: Using tsc for high-res timesource kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) kernel: Memory: 187500k/196592k available (1336k kernel code, 8468k reserved, 732k data, 204k init, 0k highmem) kernel: Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 1187.84 BogoMIPS kernel: Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) kernel: CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 kernel: CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 kernel: CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 256K kernel: CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040 kernel: CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01 kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. kernel: Checking for popad bug... OK. kernel: enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 kernel: ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 kernel: ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 kernel: Using local APIC timer interrupts. kernel: calibrating APIC timer ... kernel: ..... CPU clock speed is 604.0154 MHz. kernel: ..... host bus clock speed is 100.0692 MHz. kernel: checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd kernel: Freeing initrd memory: 4216k freed kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 16 kernel: EISA bus registered kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0890, last bus=1 kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1 kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326 kernel: ACPI: Interpreter disabled. kernel: Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay kernel: PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... kernel: PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fc260 kernel: PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xc290, dseg 0xf0000 kernel: pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xe400-0xe47f has been reserved kernel: pnp: 00:0f: ioport range 0xe800-0xe83f has been reserved kernel: PnPBIOS: 14 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 14 recorded by driver kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0596] at 0000:00:04.0 kernel: PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:0a.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask kernel: PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:0b.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask kernel: VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 kernel: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) kernel: devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x0 kernel: Initializing Cryptographic API kernel: Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... kernel: isapnp: Card 'Rockwell 56K Plug & Play Modem' kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled kernel: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A kernel: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize kernel: serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 kernel: serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 kernel: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 kernel: EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0 kernel: EISA: Detected 0 cards. kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 2 kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 8 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 20 kernel: RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 kernel: RAMDISK: Loading 4216 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H |^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H |^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H |^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H |^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H |^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H |^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H |^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H |^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H |^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\^Hdone. kernel: VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly. kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed kernel: vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 1 kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx kernel: VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:04.1 kernel: VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 kernel: VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later kernel: VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596b (rev 23) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:04.1 kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA kernel: hda: WDC WD102AA, ATA DISK drive kernel: hdb: WDC WD800JB-00JJC0, ATA DISK drive kernel: Using anticipatory io scheduler kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB kernel: hda: 20044080 sectors (10262 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19885/16/63, UDMA(66) kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 > kernel: hdb: max request size: 128KiB kernel: hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(66) kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 kernel: hdc: HL-DT-ST GCE-8520B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive kernel: hdd: CD-540E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kernel: Adding 722884k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 kernel: EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal kernel: Generic RTC Driver v1.07 kernel: hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 kernel: hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) kernel: input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1 kernel: Capability LSM initialized kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice kernel: ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended kernel: EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kernel: VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdb1. kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0a.0 (0004 -> 0007) kernel: PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:0a.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask kernel: PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0a.0 kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd000, 00:40:f4:c0:64:ba, IRQ 11 kernel: eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub kernel: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:04.2 kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: irq 9, io base 0000d400 kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected kernel: agpgart: Detected VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 149M kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000 kernel: cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2 kernel: pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 kernel: pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001 kernel: shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001 kernel: 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004) kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0b.0 (0004 -> 0005) kernel: PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:0b.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask kernel: PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0b.0 kernel: parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA] kernel: input: PC Speaker kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1535 buckets, 12280 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack Also, when I start 'Disks Manager' (disk-admin) I can see the Hard Disk with the created partition, correct filesystem format and correct mount point - exactly as I set it BUT under the partition 'Status' it says: "Inaccessible" - there is also a button 'Enable' there but when I press it nothing happens. And under the partition 'Size' it says: "11,18 GiB (Free space not available)" And when I try mounting it with (under root) "mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /music" I get mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so and this is what I get when I enter "dmesg | tail": SCSI subsystem initialized VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdb1. VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdb1. Please help, I'm new with all of this and I really can't figure out what I did wrong nor can I find an adequate solution Googleing the web. Can you see what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance!