[SOLVED] Unable to mount WD Caviar Green 1TB as a secondary SATA drive

[mistergoomba]

Sorry to repost, but I realized that the original summary did not help people understand my problem.

I just installed a SATA WD Caviar Green 1TB drive. My primary drive is also SATA. When I booted to my old drive and tried to open my new drive, it was labeled SCSI Drive and said "Could not mount drive". There didn't seem to be any other details.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love some help. Searching the forum it seems that others have been able to use this drive no problem. Do I have to format it? How would I do that?

Thanks in advance, and once again I apologize for the repost.

[skozzy]

Im new with the concept of setting up drives in linux, but I believe before you can use it you have to use the partiton editor to write a disk label to the drive and make a partition.

[mistergoomba]

Ok, so I used GParted to partition the disk into an ext3 filesystem. I then restarted because there was no icon for the drive at all anymore.

When I restarted, I got this window: "There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, usch as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in."

I was able to find my labeled drive and attempted to open it. I got a dialog box asking me to authenticate. I put in my password, pressed "authenticate", but nothing happened. The drive will not mount. I checked the device manager, and it is definitely recognized. I even tried reformatting to ext2 for the heck of it.

Any ideas?

[taurus]

Can you post the outputs of these commands from a terminal?

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

sudo fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab
df -h

[mistergoomba]

$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e8b3c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 38559 309725136 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 38560 38913 2843505 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 38560 38913 2843473+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00008573

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 121601 976760001 83 Linux




$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=4c1941f2-5b1d-4976-a13a-bbb0443cfe66 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=3259038e-c433-44f3-a5cf-bdf569ca6c1c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0




~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 291G 275G 1.3G 100% /
varrun 474M 104K 474M 1% /var/run
varlock 474M 0 474M 0% /var/lock
udev 474M 56K 474M 1% /dev
devshm 474M 12K 474M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 474M 38M 437M 8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-12-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon 291G 275G 1.3G 100% /home/martin/.gvfs

[taurus]

Try


sudo mkdir /media/sdb1
sudo mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1
df -h

p.s. By the way, you know that you've maxed out 291GB of your /?

[mistergoomba]

That's why I got the new hard drive ;}

Thanks a lot! I'm able to access my drive now.