10.04 and 3 SATA HDD problem

[nohope58]

I have 3 SATA HDD, sda - Ubuntu 10.04, sdb-XP, sdc -win7. From Ubuntu I can`t access sdb or sdc. Win7 and XP run smoothly.
Gparted gives me:
nenad@nenad-desktop:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdc unit s print
Error: /dev/sdc: unrecognised disk label
nenad@nenad-desktop:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb unit s print
Error: /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label

With- sudo fdisk -l I get:
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 ? 1 8995 72251313+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc2 8995 60801 416136779 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdc5 8995 60801 416136747+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x134a1349
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 ? 1 7335 58918356 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 7336 60801 429465645 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 7336 60801 429465613+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Ubuntu 10.04 was the last OS I installed. Thank`s in advance!

[dabl]

Probably /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc are not mounted. In a terminal window do

sudo mount

and then post the output, please.

[nohope58]

nenad@nenad-desktop:~$ sudo mount
[sudo] password for nenad:
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/dev/sda6 on /media/Rezerva type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda5 on /home type ext3 (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/nenad/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=nenad)

[dabl]

Right, so /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc are not mounted filesystems.

What you need to do is edit the file /etc/fstab and add lines that will mount the applicable filesystems on /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. The "how to" information has been written many times:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ighlight=fstab

[nohope58]

Tried that, and got:
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sdb1': No such file or directory

manually changed fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=8b8764ae-b0e6-4012-a1d0-b2f60b4a2044 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
#Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=985f4cd1-29b6-42f6-bc76-27c817521851 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
#Entry for /dev/sda7 :
UUID=3700D52D715A990D /media/Rezerva ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=01277a4a-e2fc-42d9-937f-759574521eb7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /media/windowsd ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/XP ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/sdc5 /media/XPd ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

[tgalati4]

HAL is no longer used. He got locked out of the airlock. DeviceKit is used to enumerate devices. I believe DeviceKit wants UUID numbers. Modify your fstab with all UUID numbers.

To get UUID:

blkid /dev/sda1
blkid /dev/sdb1
.
.
.

[dabl]

Tried that, and got:

ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sdb1': No such file or directory

That's a little disturbing -- but I do agree with tgalati4 that "mount by-uuid" is the superior method. What I do is open 2 terminal windows, plus /etc/fstab with a root text editor. In one terminal window, run

sudo fdisk -lu

and in the other terminal window run

sudo blkid

You can match the /dev/sdxx number to the blkid output to be sure you understand which partition goes with which UUID number.

Now you can copy the UUID number from the blkid output, and paste it into the text editor for the line that was /dev/sdxx, and be sure to delete the extraneous apostrophe.