On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 23:53:47 +0700, Amrit Angsusingh <amritangs@xxxxxxxxx> 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? Have you put a file system on it yet? If not you can use mkfs to do that.