Mounting my Slave Drive

[ron3090]

I just found a 10 gb drive (which I assume is totally empty) and set it up as the slave drive to my 350 gb xubuntu drive. The drive shows up in the BIOS, and the system info claims it is on scsi0 along with my other drive, but I cannot seem to find the path to it and thus mount it or partition it. Any help?

EDIT: I did an fdisk -l on my 350gb on a hunch, and got this back:

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda1

Disk /dev/sda1: 319.3 GB, 319305337344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38819 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sda1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

What does this mean? Is my working drive somehow broken?

EDIT: Also, although the drive claims to be SCSI, the cable looks like an IDE cord. I'm not sure what's going on...

[Girya]

see if the other drive shows up with this command:


sudo fdisk -l

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda1 will just show the sda1 partition. when I run fdisk -l on my system I get this:


kevin@kevin-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for kevin:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a9225

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 154 1236973+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 155 16677 132720997+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 16678 19202 20282062+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 19203 19457 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5 156 395 1927800 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 396 2945 20482843+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 2946 8044 40957686 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 8045 16677 69344541 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x82718271

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1158 9301603+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb2 1159 4865 29776477+ 83 Linux


If I run sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda1 I get the same complaint as you:


kevin@kevin-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda1

Disk /dev/sda1: 1266 MB, 1266660864 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 153 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sda1 doesn't contain a valid partition table


The reason fdisk complains is because there is no partition table in the partition sda1, the partition table for sda is in the MBR on sda. I hope my explanation makes sense. fdisk is meant to work on devices to create partitions.

[ron3090]

fdisk -l gives this:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000df1b8

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 38820 311821618+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 38821 38913 747022+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 38821 38913 746991 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 10.0 GB, 10005037056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1216 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdd: 1017 MB, 1017643008 bytes
29 heads, 60 sectors/track, 1142 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1740 * 512 = 890880 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 1143 993667+ 6 FAT16

I assume that /dev/sdb is the drive, so I did sudo fdisk /dev/sdb, and got this:

sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xdaee4784.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.


The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1216.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)

Command (m for help):

I'm not sure what I'm doing from here. I want to format it to install windows onto, so how?