mount problems??

[smite]

Hi, I recently bought a 120gig for a second computer and rather than copy all my data around, I thought it would be easy to keep it on as a slave and copy all the data locally, right?? It should be, but

[chrisis]

You have to mount a PARTITION, not a drive:

[smite]

Before:
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda2
/dev/hda3
/dev/hda4

AFTER plugging in old drive:
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda2
/dev/hda3
/dev/hda4
/dev/hdb
/dev/hdc
/dev/hdd

There's only two drives. Why were the partitions of the old drive mistaken for physical drives?

[chrisis]

YOu have to partition the new drive before you can use it... I assume you have done this?

Next, determine exactly what the drive names should be:

Primary Master = /dev/hda
Primary Slave = /dev/hdb

Secondary Master = /dev/hdc
Secondary Slave = /dev/hdd

Post here which of your drives is what, including your cdrom drive.

(ie, if the new 120gb is /dev/hda, then post: Primary Master = 120gb, etc)

Then we can look at what you can do to examine those disks properly.
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[travisau]

another quick thing you can try if you are not sure is this

fdisk /dev/hda
fdisk /dev/hdb
fdisk/dev/hdc
fdisk /dev/hdd

after you run each of these type p to print the partition talbe and try to determine which drive is which according to the size