Are you sure it detected it as hdd and not hdc. If the drive is set to master it will be hdc. Is the something else on the second IDE channel? How many partitions are on the drive your looking to mount? -----Original Message----- From: Paula Fernandes [mailto:paula@xxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 12:00 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Mount new disk... I get the same answer. I am using RedHat 9.0 On Sáb, 2003-10-04 at 16:54, Jeff Wimmer wrote: > I believe you need to do the following, although you didn't say which > version of redhat you're running: > > mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /mnt/alf > > > JEFFREY WIMMER > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paula Fernandes" <paula@xxxxxxx> > To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 10:44 AM > Subject: Mount new disk... > > > > > > Hi list, > > > > > > I need to mount a disk with a windows system to recover some files from > > the disk. I plug it into the secondary IDE has slave. > > > > I have created a new directory this way: > > > > mkdir /mnt/alf > > > > Then I try to mount the disk this way: > > > > mount /dev/hdd /mnt/alf > > > > And I get this answer: /dev/hdd is not a valid block device > > > > Then I try /dev/hdd0 and hdd1, and the answer still the same. > > > > > > Do I need to give any other instruction the the mount command? > > > > Thanks for any help... > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list