IDE drive mount problem

[moza]

hi folks

i have two drives.one that has the ubuntu on it and it is sata and the other is the original IDE and linux cant see it at all..........when i look on the volume manager i cant see it and on windows i can see it well......so how can i fix that?

[kuja]

Maybe it's not just mounted. The first master IDE hard disk would be /dev/hda. The first Sata master would /dev/sda. To see if it's really seeing them, try running this command in a terminal:

ls /dev/[sh]d*

[John.Michael.Kane]

If the other drive is blank
sudo aptitude install gparted

Format the drive to ext3 or the file system of your choice
gksudo gparted

NextRun:
sudo fdisk -l

The output should be something like this example.
/dev/hda5 1276 2388 8940141 83 Linux

create a mount point
sudo mkdir /media/storage the bold name can be anything you want

Backup your /etc/fstab file:
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup

Edit your /etc/fstab file:
sudo nano /etc/fstab

Add this line: Note make sure hda5 is changed to match your drives hda number
/dev/hda5 /storage ext3 defaults 0 0

Save the file, and exit.

Now run:
sudo mount -a

You need to give it the proper permissions.
sudo chown -R marie:marie /storage change marie to your user name.

Set final permissions
sudo chmod -R 755 /storage

You golden.

Credit to psychocats (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index) for the drive mount info.


If the drive is ntfs based. this should help
ntfs-3g how to (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009&highlight=ntsf-3g)

[moza]

then problem is that i cant rformat it it has my work.......and most of it are ntfs...and it is not founf in ls /dev/[sh]d*

[John.Michael.Kane]

then problem is that i cant rformat it it has my work.......and most of it are ntfs...and it is not founf in ls /dev/[sh]d*


Then these are your options.

1) Guide to mount windows partitions (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows)

2) use the ntfs3g guide linked in the other post

3) Off load the data to another form of media using the live cd.

[tza]

easy stuff first - is the additional drive enabled in the system BIOS (Setup Menu at boot screen)?

I run a dual-boot Dell machine and had to do this when I installed the new drive for ubuntu.

Hope the easy stuff helps.

[moza]

look i can see it on windows.........but not on ubuntu and i think i read it on fedora

[John.Michael.Kane]

look i can see it on windows.........but not on ubuntu and i think i read it on fedora

Theres two guides given to mount ntfs drives.


Also it would help if you posted the output .
sudo fdisk -l