On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:44:38PM +0100, Paula Fernandes wrote: > > 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. Are you sure hdd is the right device? Do you see the drive in with 'cat /proc/devices' ? > > > Do I need to give any other instruction the the mount command? Usually not. Mount complains about a device which isn't there. regards Klaus -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
