[COLUG] Paying for a Senior Moment

[Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.]

I have just upgraded my linux machine to a 64bit AMD CPU.  I also went 
from the 32bit openSUSE v9.3 to the 64bit v10.3.  However, the 
systemboard only has one IDE connectir and I had three IDE HD's that I 
wanted to install in the new system.  So I installed a IDE to PCI card 
that has two IDE cable slots.  I also put a new 250GB SATA HD on the 
system and unstalled the OS on that so  I can boot the new machine.  In 
fact, this message is being sent via that medium.

The machine finds all of the HD's on boot, ans I can see them in 
Krusaders Mountg-Manager.  However, when I attem;pt to mount the IDE 
drives in the Mount-Manager I get:

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Here is the fstab:

/dev/sda5            /                    ext3       
acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/sda6            /home                ext3       
acl,user_xattr        1 2
/dev/hdc1            swap                 swap       
defaults              0 0
/dev/sda1            swap                 swap       
defaults              0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       
defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      
noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    
noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      
noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     
mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
/dev/fd0             /media/floppy        auto       
noauto,user,sync      0 0
/dev/hdb        /hdb        ext3    defaults    0 0
/dev/hdc        /hdc        ext3    defaults    0 0
/dev/hdd        /hdd        ext3    defaults    0 0

I added the last three lines in an attempt to find the drives, obviously 
the file system is incorrect.  I accepted the openSUSE installer 
defaults, which is why sda5 and 6 are ext3.

Here is the output of dmesg (at least the parts that I think are for the 
IDE HD's)

hdb: WDC WD400EB-00CPF0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes not supported
 hdb: hdb1

Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0, ATA DISK drive
hdd: WDC WD400JB-00ENA0, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0xffffc20000024c80-0xffffc20000024c87,0xffffc20000024c8a on irq 50
hdc: max request size: 64KiB
hdc: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, 
UDMA(100)
hdc: cache flushes supported
 hdc: hdc1 hdc2
hdd: max request size: 64KiB
 hdc: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, 
UDMA(100)
hdc: cache flushes supported
 hdc: hdc1 hdc2
hdd: max request size: 64KiB
hdd: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdd: cache flushes not supported
 hdd: hdd1


It seems to me, in my rather naive way of looking at hardware issues, 
that I don't have the corrects fstab entries for the IDE drives.  Is 
that information buried in the dmesg resuls?

I need a solution to this problem (there's a lot in installed software 
and files on those HD to which I need access) and any assistance will be 
greatly appreciated.  Finally, my apologies for the length of this 
message, I don't know what of the above (if any) will be useful

Thanks in advance.