At 1:31 PM -0500 5/3/06, bhanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >I've run into the same problem where I have an old hard drive with an EXT3 >partition what cannot be mounted following the FC5 install. Note that >this same partition will mount fine using Knoppix or older versions of >Fedora. > >I recently installed FC5 on my main machine. This machine used to run >FC4, but this was not an install. I dropped two new 160GB SATA drives >into the machine and performed a clean install. Prior to the install I >backed all of my important data files up to an old 40GB IDE drive. I am >using both software RAID and LVM on the new install, but everything went >smoothly with that. The only issue is that the EXT3 partition on the old >40GB drive cannot be mounted. It produces and error as follows: > >"mount: /dev/hde1 is not a valid block device" > >This IDE drive is connected to an HPT302 IDE controller card, but the last >time I had problems with a card of this type was several years ago. > >I've been down the SE Linux road, and that doesn't seem to be the issue. > >Any other ideas? Hmm, when I try to screw around with non-existent or non-block devices I get different error messages, so mount has a specific complaint about your /dev/hde1. What happens if you try to dd from it? dd if=/dev/hde1 of=/dev/null count=100000 ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list