[PLUG] Setting up a additional IDE drive under linux

[Anthony Locascio <thanous@dca.net>]

Greetings all.

Questions abound regarding the subject header.  I cant seem to figure 
out how to mount and be able to use a second IDE drive.

Before I go crazy with searching the net or with messing around with man 
files I will defer to your experince.

I added the drive, I formatted the drive using fdisk, and it shows up 
when I hit "fdisk -l"  However when I try to mount the drive... "mount 
-t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /whatever" it comes back with unable to read 
superblock... so what the hell is a superblock? How do I fix the problem 
and so on.

I need to share this drive via samba, but all my other drives that I 
mounted were via ext2 as well... so I didnt see the need to directly 
mount it with msdos.


Help me "recover" from my hard drive blues

Anthony


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