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OK, I've tried to read relevant threads before asking this, because it seems
to me that it shouldn't be hard. However, I'm now at the end of my rope:

I have a system with two IDE drives, each 60 gigs. I've divided the drives
into several partitions:

hda1 - (primary) NTFS (boot) ~ 30 GB
hda2 - (primary) Fat16 ~ 40 MB
hda3 - (primary) Ext2 ~ 30 GB
hda4 - (primary) Swap ~ 40 MB

hdb2 - (primary) Ext2 (boot) ~ 30 GB
hdb1 - (primary) NTFS (boot) ~ 29 GB
hdb3 - (extended) ~ 1 GB
hdb5 - (logical) FAT32 ~ 1 GB

hdb1 and hdb2 are switched, probably because of how I used PartitionMagic
to insert hdb1 in front of hdb2. This doesn't appear to be a problem,
because I can mount hdb2 just fine - that's where all of my currently
installed filesystems are located.

I created hdb5 to move files from Windows to Linux. But when I try to
mount -r -t vfat /dev/hdb5 /windows
I get
"wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5
or too many mounted file systems
(Aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)"

I've tried to look at the partition table of hdb, but when I try
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
I get nothing. When I try
fdisk /dev/hdb
the program terminates with the message "Unable to read /dev/hdb".

What do I try next?
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Helge Moulding
mailto:hmoulding@excite.com Just another guy
http://hmoulding.cjb.net with a weird name

On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:52:22 -0700, Helge Moulding wrote:

> I've tried to look at the partition table of hdb, but when I try
> fdisk -l /dev/hdb
> I get nothing. When I try
> fdisk /dev/hdb
> the program terminates with the message "Unable to read /dev/hdb".
>
> What do I try next?
Try to read from /dev/hdb:
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null bs=1k count=10
If you can't read from it, check whether the hd is plugged in as slave in
the first IDE controller.

Wolfgang Fischer wrote,
> Try to read from /dev/hdb:
> dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null bs=1k count=10

Apparently I can, if I understand the output from dd correctly.

# dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null bs=1k count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out

Also, as I wrote originally, I'm booting from hdb2, where Linux
is actually installed.
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Helge Moulding
mailto:hmoulding@excite.com Just another guy
http://hmoulding.cjb.net with a weird name