I ran partprobe on /dev/hde and that changed the error message to the following: mount: /dev/hde1 already mounted or /mnt/sata_files busy Unfortunately, it stil won't mount, unmount, or anything else. Per your suggestion, I ran the dd command it it ran fine. No errors - all data copied. -- Brian > At 1:31 PM -0500 5/3/06, bhanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>I've run into the same problem where I have an old hard drive with an >> EXT3 >>partition what cannot be mounted following the FC5 install. Note that >>this same partition will mount fine using Knoppix or older versions of >>Fedora. >> >>I recently installed FC5 on my main machine. This machine used to run >>FC4, but this was not an install. I dropped two new 160GB SATA drives >>into the machine and performed a clean install. Prior to the install I >>backed all of my important data files up to an old 40GB IDE drive. I am >>using both software RAID and LVM on the new install, but everything went >>smoothly with that. The only issue is that the EXT3 partition on the old >>40GB drive cannot be mounted. It produces and error as follows: >> >> >> >>This IDE drive is connected to an HPT302 IDE controller card, but the >> last >>time I had problems with a card of this type was several years ago. >> >>I've been down the SE Linux road, and that doesn't seem to be the issue. >> >>Any other ideas? > > Hmm, when I try to screw around with non-existent or non-block devices I > get different error messages, so mount has a specific complaint about your > /dev/hde1. What happens if you try to dd from it? > > dd if=/dev/hde1 of=/dev/null count=100000 > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > > >
