Unable to mount external drive

[jerrywo]

I may have outsmarted myself. I made a clone of my internal drive (see previous thread) and now I'm unable to mount it.

I tried "mount" from CLI
"Can't find disk in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

I ran GTParted. It showed drive as /dev/fd0 read-write (read-only file system). /dev/fd0 has been opened read-only. Input/Output error during read on /dev/fd0.

I restarted the system and it appeared I was able to boot from my external drive (told the machine boot from USB-HDD).

Did I get to clever in making a cloned external drive?
Jerry

[jerrywo]

To add to my own post,

the permissions of the external drive are:
brw-rw----

the letter "b" meaning a blocked device file. if that helps anyone
jerry