Amrit Angsusingh wrote: > I used pentium 4 mechine with 256 Mb ram and fedora core 3 for web server > and four IDE HDDs [160 Gbx4] on both primary ans secondary IDE. The bios > also detected all 4 HDD but after starting FC3 the system mount secondary > slave HDD /dev/hdd1 as /mnt/idedisk1 > /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdc1 /mec ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdb1 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > /dev/hdd1 /mnt/idedisk1 auto amconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > > which appeared to be the read only device. I cannot umount this device and > mount it to /dev/hdd1 ext3 . I would like to use this HDD to store the > nackup data. Does any one tell me how to do this? > First of all, did you partition the drive, and create a file system on it? (What does "fdisk -l /dev/hdd" show?) If this is a new drive, then it may have a partition on it from the factory. If so, it is probably a vfat partition, and it may not be the entire drive. You will need to unmount the drive, and then use fdisk to change the partition type to type 83, and then run mke2fs on it to create a file ext3 file system. If the partition is not the entire drive, delete the current partition, and create a new one. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
